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## Description When using Stylistic Sets to obtain alternative letterforms for text faces, XeTeX will correctly use the changed faces for `\mathrm` and friends. But LuaTeX will not. ## Check/indicate...

## Description Kernings are lost in `\mathrm` and friends. According to David Carlisle in [his answer](https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/168781): > `\mathrm` `\mathit` and friends are designed to allow *multi-letter* identifiers so use the...

I just read parts I and II of the manual and made note of the following typos: - p.7, section 4.1, visible space glyph ("␣") is missing (there is just...

## Description In regular latex, the virtual font mechanism enables provision of small caps even with fonts missing such a feature (e.g., the ptm font, that is URW++ Nimbus roman...

See: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/485339/nfss-can-i-scale-fonts-using-fractions-more-accurate-instead-of-decimals

## Description Using `Scale=` is subject to TeX’s binary rounding errors. It is possible to employ `\dimexpr` from eTeX (enabled under both XeTeX and LuaTeX) to get more accurate results....

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...

## Description If a font doesn't support a certain accent or combining character or similar that's supported in TU, fontspec could catch that an load a variation of TU that...

Should this work? ``` \documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmainfont{[texgyrepagella-regular]} \begin{document} hello \emph{hello} \end{document} ``` It currently does but only by coincidence (without the square brackets it doesn't work, but with a literal...

See recent test "mergeshapes.lvt". All sorts of problems with ``` \renewcommand\itdefault{ii} \renewcommand\scdefault{ss} ```