[XeTeX] problem with small caps

McCollum, Adam acmccollum101 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 19 18:08:36 CET 2011


Hi Herb,

Thanks for the reply. I had just updated with TeX Live this morning, but for some reason Xltxtra and Fontspec were still slightly out of date. I updated them manually, and everything is working as it should now.

Best wishes,

Adam


On Jan 19, 2011, at 10:30 AM, Herbert Schulz wrote:

> 
> 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)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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