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 names such as the above? > Le 24 oct. 2023 à 03:40, David Barts via XeTeX <xetex@tug.org> a écrit : > > 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 smcp > feature in them when using Libre Office. I know Libre Office isn’t simply > faking it and using a smaller point size to get small caps because a) that’s > not how the text appears (the small caps sure look like proper small caps to > me), b) it doesn’t do this for all fonts. > > It’s not all Open Type fonts that XeTeX has problems with, either. It can use > the small caps in Shinntype’s Scotch Modern just fine. > > I’ve done some web searches about this and so far came up dry. Was wondering > if anyone else had noticed it or has a workaround. > > -- > David Barts / n5...@me.com <mailto:n5...@me.com> > He who has nothing to die for has nothing to live for. > -- Moroccan proverb <http://www.imt-atlantique.fr/> Yannis HARALAMBOUS Professor Computer Science Department UMR CNRS 6285 Lab-STICC <https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/en/person/yannis-haralambous> <https://twitter.com/y_haralambous> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/yannis-haralambous-5529073?trk=hp-identity-name>Technopôle Brest-Iroise CS 83818 29238 Brest Cedex 3, France Une École de l'IMT <http://www.imt.fr/> All grammars leak. (Edward Sapir, Language: An Introduction to the Study of Speech)
