[XeTeX] Small Caps Font Woes

[Robert MacGregor]

Thanks!  Works perfectly.  I get how that works now that I see it, wouldn't
have thought to define it like that, I guess I need to spend more time
reading the fontspec documentation.  And after doing some more searching, it
looks like I do lack the Bembo SmallCaps definitions, so I'll stick to using
Hoefler Small Caps for now at least (the SC/Oldstyle Bembo files are aobut
$20).  Thanks again Malcolm.

--Bob

On 10/30/06, Malcolm Ross <Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Hi Bob,
>
> I must be almost as ignorant as you, but the following gets me
> Hoefler small caps whenever \textsc is specified, regardless of what
> other font I am using.
>
> \newfontinstance\scshape[Letters=SmallCaps, Numbers=Uppercase]
> {Hoefler Text}
>
> All the best,
>
> Malcolm Ross
> The Australian National University
>
>
>
>
> On 31/10/2006, at 12:18 PM, Robert MacGregor wrote:
>
> > Hey Peter,
> >
> > Thanks for the help!  Pardon my ignorance, but how would I go about
> > checking if my font definitons have Small Caps?  Sorry, I know next
> > to nothing about fonts.  I salvaged the Bembo fonts from an old mac
> > not being used anymore, and the files I have something like 9 LWFN
> > files.
> >
> > Also, if they don't have small caps definitions, it would be fine
> > if I could use another font for small caps, I just don't understand
> > how to do that.  If I set "SmallCapsFont" to something else, for
> > example:
> >
> > \setromanfont[SmallCapsFont=Hoefler Text]{Bembo}
> >
> > I still don't get small caps, just regular text.
> >
> > Thanks again, I really do appreciate the help.
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > Bob MacGregor
> > Princeton University
> >
> >
> >
> > On 10/30/06, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa at web.de> wrote:
> > Am 30.10.2006 um 23:54 schrieb Robert MacGregor:
> >
> > > (I have the LWFN files for Bembo).  So once I realized this would
> > > be hell with LaTeX, I found XeTeX and I got Bembo sort of working
> > > using fontspec.
> >
> > Are you sure that your Bembo fonts contain SmallCaps?
> >
> > The most important factor is that it's a feature of advanced fonts to
> > allow selection of such font features as SmallCaps (while you're
> > typing "normal" characters) – in case they provide them! You can't do
> > that with simple PostScript or TrueType fonts. If such a font by
> > chance contains these glyphs you'd have to type the Unicode positions
> > of these characters, just as the Unicode value (in hex) 20AC (8364 in
> > decimal) selects the € glyph from the font – if it's there. Try this
> > with Bembo!
> >
> > XeTeX does not create faked SmallCaps as some ("normal") TeX packages
> > allow.
> >
> > --
> > Greetings
> >
> >    Pete
> >
> > The light at the end of the tunnel has been turned off due to budget
> > cuts.
> >
> >
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