[XeTeX] \textsc{} does not work any more with tex live 2013

[Jens Bakker]

Dear Herbert Schulz,

Thank you very much for your solution.

With best wishes and best regards,
Jens Bakker



Am 09.07.2013 um 14:21 schrieb Herbert Schulz:

> 
> On Jul 9, 2013, at 5:50 AM, Jens Bakker <jbakker at uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> 
>> Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
>> 
>> I would like to ask a question, please: may it be, that the command \textsc{} does not work with tex live 2013 any more? Please see the attached minimal example.
>> 
>> With best wishes and best regards,
>> Jens Bakker
>> 
> 
> 
> Howdy,
> 
> This has been brought up before and answered by quite clearly by Khaled Hosny. I quote:
> 
> ``Charis SIL is a hybrid OpenType/Graphite font, in 0.9998 OpenType was
> chosen but in 0.9999 Graphite is chosen instead (a side effect of using
> HarfBuzz for both OpenType and Graphite) I’m not yet decided whether to
> consider this a bug or a feature.
> 
> Either way, with such hybrid fonts it is always better to be explicit
> about what font technology to use, adding a “Renderer=ICU” will force
> OpenType layout (should be renamed “Renderer=OT” now, but it still works
> nevertheless). ... ''
> 
> So simply use
> 
> \setmainfont[Mapping=tex-text,Renderer=ICU]{Charis SIL}
> 
> and all will be fine.
> 
> Good Luck,
> 
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest dot com)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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