Specify Small Caps for both upright and bold fonts

[ambs]

I have this configuration:

\newfontface\VerdanaFont{Verdana1}[
   Mapping=tex-text,
   Path=fonts/,
   Extension=.ttf,
   BoldFont=Verdana1b,
   SmallCapsFeatures = { Letters=SmallCaps },
]

It works great for upright, upright with small caps, and bold. But when I try a bold small caps, I can't get them to work. In the other hand, if I do:

\newfontface\VerdanaFont{Verdana1}[
   Mapping=tex-text,
   Path=fonts/,
   Extension=.ttf,
   BoldFont=Verdana1b,
   SmallCapsFeatures = { Letters=SmallCaps },
   BoldFeatures = {Letters = SmallCaps},
]

then I have small caps in bold, but no upright bold.

What am I missing? Thank you

[ambs]

Reading through the manual, this should work:

\newfontface\VerdanaFont{Verdana1}[
   Mapping=tex-text,
   Path=fonts/,
   Extension=.ttf,
   BoldFont= Verdana1b,
   BoldFeatures = {
     SmallCapsFeatures = {Letters=SmallCaps }},
   SmallCapsFeatures = { Letters=SmallCaps },
]

But not yet :-)

[wspr]

Thanks, looks like you may have stumbled across an edge case. I’ll look into it...

[ambs]

I can share privately the fonts in case you need to test.

[wspr]

Regarding fonts, is it possible to repeat the test using something like texgyrepagella-regular.otf ? It makes it much easier for me to write standardised tests if the font is in TeX Live.

Just to confirm, you know that you shouldn’t need to write

SmallCapsFeatures = { Letters=SmallCaps }

for most fonts? If the small caps are there then fontspec should automatically detect and activate them.

[ambs]

Yes, looking to the docs it seemed that command was not required, but given things were not working, I tried everything I got. Will try to reproduce with a TeX Live font.

[ambs]

Ok, when trying to prepare a simple test case, I found out a way to make my fonts work. Maybe it was my fault right from the beginning, but given there is no example with this kind of detail in the documentation (or at least I did not find it while going through it), I never tested this configuration before reporting:

\newfontface\VerdanaFont{Verdana1}[
   Mapping=tex-text,
   Path=fonts/,
   Extension=.ttf,
   SmallCapsFont = Verdana1,
   SmallCapsFeatures = {Letters=SmallCaps},
   BoldFont= Verdana1b,
   BoldFeatures = {
     SmallCapsFont = Verdana1b
   },
]

Curiously, \textsc and \scshape doesn't behave the same way. I had the first working without the SmallCapsFeatures line, but the second did not.

If I may suggest, at least to add an example like this:

\fontspec{Alegreya-Regular}[
Path = /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/huerta/alegreya/,
Extension = .ttf,
BoldFont = Alegreya-Bold,
SmallCapsFont = AlegreyaSC-Regular,
BoldFeatures = {
  SmallCapsFont = AlegreyaSC-Bold,
}
]

It will make it (more) clear you can specify a small caps font inside the bold features.

Thank you for your help and work on fontspec!!

[RuixiZhang42]

I think this hierarchy is documented in v2.7c, on page 16 of the manual (at the top). So this issue may be closed.