Posted this on the /r/tex subreddit and it was recommended I post it here:
When I run XeLaTeX from TeX Live 2023 on my Mac, it does not allow me to
access the small caps (smcp feature) in the Baskerville or Hoefler Text
fonts. I know these fonts contain small caps, because I can access the
smc
> On Oct 23, 2023, at 8:40 PM, David Barts via XeTeX wrote:
>
> Posted this on the /r/tex subreddit and it was recommended I post it here:
> When I run XeLaTeX from TeX Live 2023 on my Mac, it does not allow me to
> access the small caps (smcp feature) in the Baskerville or Hoefler Text
> fo
The Scotch Modern font contains glyphs with the smcp extension, these are used
by the smcp feature. See the screen capture below:

I opened the Hoefler Text font and found no such glyphs, but maybe it is an old
version of the font. Have you opened it with FontLab and
have you seen glyph with n
I downloaded Hoefler Text from here:
https://fontsgeek.com/fonts/Hoefler-Text-Regular#google_vignette
My minimal example:
%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Renderer=OpenType]{Hoefler Text}
\begin{document}
Now is the time for all
dear Lorna,
I downloaded the font and opened it with FontLab. Even though it has a feature
feature smcp {
# GSUB feature: Small Capitals
# Lookups: 1
script latn; # Latin
sub @smcp by @smcp2;
} smcp;
and a class called smcp:
b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y z a_acute a_gra
> On Oct 24, 2023, at 3:44 PM, Lorna Evans wrote:
>
> I downloaded Hoefler Text from here:
> https://fontsgeek.com/fonts/Hoefler-Text-Regular#google_vignette
> My minimal example:
>
>> %!TEX TS-program = xelatex
>>
>> \documentclass[12pt]{memoir}
>> \usepackage{fontspec}
>>
>> \setmainfon
Interesting. This works for me! I don't know why (I am relatively new to
TeX/LaTeX, but it works. It finds the small caps in both the Baskerville
and Hoefler Text fonts that ship with MacOS.
What I had been doing is using :
\scshape{Some text here.}
I also tried using \scshapeand that also fa
They are both TrueType as reported by Font Book.
But as I just wrote, I can access the small caps via the \fontspec
macro; it is just \textsc and \scshape that fail.
On 2023-10-24 17:06, Herbert Schulz via XeTeX wrote:
Howdy,
Does the OpenType version of Hoefler Text appear in Font Book? If
That should of course read \textsc{Some text here.}
On 2023-10-24 19:57, David Barts via XeTeX wrote:
What I had been doing is using :
\scshape{Some text here.}
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