[XeTeX] problem with small caps

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:10 AM, McCollum, Adam wrote:

> Dear list members,
> 
> I'm having a problem getting small caps to show up. It works if I don't declare a font (i.e., if I use the default), but I've tried both Linux Libertine and Junicode and the small caps do not show up. Minimal example below. 
> 
> Thanks in advance for any tips.
> 
> Adam
> 
> \documentclass{article}
> 
> \usepackage{xltxtra}
> 
> \setromanfont[Mapping=tex-text]{Linux Libertine}
> 
> \begin{document}
> 
> \noindent
> Old King \textsc{Cole} was a merry old soul\\
> And a merry old soul was he;\\
> He called for his \textsc{pipe}, and he called for his \textsc{bowl}\\
> And he called for his \textsc{fiddlers} three.
> 
> \end{document}  
> 

Howdy,

No problem here. What TeX Distribution are you using? Is it up to date? Put \listfiles at the top of this document so you can compare to my versions?

My \listfiles:

article.cls    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
  size10.clo    2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
 xltxtra.sty    2010/09/20 v0.5e Improvements for the "XeLaTeX" format
ifluatex.sty    2010/03/01 v1.3 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
 ifxetex.sty    2010/09/12 v0.6 Provides ifxetex conditional
fontspec.sty    2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/LuaLaTeX
   expl3.sty    2010/11/13 v2083 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
 l3names.sty    2011/01/08 v2122 L3 Experimental Naming Scheme for TeX Primitiv
es
    etex.sty    1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
l3basics.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental basic definitions
 l3expan.sty    2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Argument Expansion module
    l3tl.sty    2010/12/18 v2103 L3 Experimental Token Lists
   l3int.sty    2011/01/07 v2121 L3 Experimental Integer module
 l3quark.sty    2010/09/20 v2036 L3 Experimental Quark Commands
   l3seq.sty    2010/03/29 v1879 L3 Experimental sequences and stacks
  l3toks.sty    2010/09/20 v2037 L3 Experimental Token Registers
   l3prg.sty    2011/01/07 v2121 L3 Experimental control structures
 l3clist.sty    2010/10/09 v2071 L3 Experimental comma separated lists
 l3token.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental token investigation and manipu
lation
  l3prop.sty    2010/11/23 v2087 L3 Experimental Property Lists
   l3msg.sty    2010/10/02 v2052 L3 Experimental LaTeX Messages module
    l3io.sty    2010/10/03 v2063 L3 Experimental i/o module
  l3skip.sty    2011/01/07 v2121 L3 Experimental skip registers
   l3box.sty    2010/09/26 v2048 L3 Experimental Box module
l3keyval.sty    2010/04/11 v1890 L3 Experimental keyval processing
  l3keys.sty    2010/11/11 v2082 L3 Experimental key-value support
l3precom.sty    2010/02/09 v1793 L3 Experimental precompilation module
  l3xref.sty    2010/02/09 v1786 L3 Experimental cross referencing
  l3file.sty    2010/03/21 v1853 L3 Experimental file loading
    l3fp.sty    2011/01/10 v2128 L3 Experimental floating-point operations
l3luatex.sty    2010/07/18 v1985 L3 Experimental LuaTeX functions
    calc.sty    2007/08/22 v4.3 Infix arithmetic (KKT,FJ)
  xparse.sty    2011/01/09 v2125 Generic document command parser
 xkeyval.sty    2008/08/13 v2.6a package option processing (HA)
 xkeyval.tex    2008/08/13 v2.6a key=value parser (HA)
fontspec-patches.sty    2010/11/17 v2.1e Advanced font selection for XeLaTeX/Lu
aLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty    2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
 fontenc.sty
  eu1enc.def    2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
  eu1lmr.fd    2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty    2010/11/06 v0.96 provides access to latin accents and many othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
fontspec.cfg
realscripts.sty    2010/09/30 v0.3 Access OpenType subscripts and superscripts
metalogo.sty    2010/05/29 v0.12 Extended TeX logo macros
graphicx.sty    1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
graphics.sty    2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
    trig.sty    1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg    2010/04/23 v1.9 graphics configuration of TeX Live
   xetex.def    2009/11/22 v0.94 LaTeX color/graphics driver for XeTeX (RRM/JK)

By the way, if you're using a fully updated version of TeX Live 2010 you should get into the habit of using this slight variation of packages and \setromanfont (\setmainfont) options:

\listfiles
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec,metalogo,realscripts}

\setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Linux Libertine}

\begin{document}

\noindent
Old King \textsc{Cole} was a merry old soul\\
And a merry old soul was he;\\
He called for his \textsc{pipe}, and he called for his \textsc{bowl}\\
And he called for his \textsc{fiddlers} three.

\end{document}  

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)