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I have been using the Baskervald font for a document but have realised that small caps do not work with it. Instead lowercase letters are used. Is there a better free option if you want these features or is there a way to somehow use LaTeX to reduce the normal caps to small caps (although that might not look correct)?
I've looked around the net for other free clones but most are limited in similar ways.
You need a Palatino with proper OpenType support, alternatively you can use TeX Gyre Pagella (which is true Palatino by Zapf, and further opentypified by GUST) which is included in TeXlive.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Numbers=OldStyle]{TeX Gyre Pagella}
\begin{document}
Text 12345.
\end{document}
A different approach: with \fakesc you can store the "faked" text in a control sequence for later use.
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec,xparse}
\ExplSyntaxOn
\NewDocumentCommand{\fakesc}{ o m }
{
\guido_fakesc:n { #2 }
\IfNoValueTF{#1}
{
\tl_use:N \l__guido_temp_tl
}
{
\cs_set_eq:NN #1 \l__guido_temp_tl
}
}
\cs_new_protected:Npn \guido_fakesc:n #1
{
\tl_set:Nn \l__guido_text_tl { #1 }
\tl_replace_all:Nnn \l__guido_text_tl { ~ } { \q_space }
\tl_set:Nn \l__guido_temp_tl { \group_begin: \footnotesize }
\tl_map_inline:Nn \l__guido_text_tl
{
\token_if_eq_meaning:NNTF ##1 \q_space
{
\tl_put_right:Nn \l__guido_temp_tl { ~ }
}
{
\int_compare:nTF { \char_value_uccode:n { `##1 } = `##1 }
{
\tl_put_right:Nn \l__guido_temp_tl { {\normalsize ##1} }
}
{
\tl_put_right:Nn \l__guido_temp_tl { \tl_upper_case:n { ##1 } }
}
}
}
\tl_put_right:Nn \l__guido_temp_tl { \group_end: }
}
\quark_new:N \q_space
\tl_new:N \l__guido_text_tl
\tl_new:N \l__guido_temp_tl
\ExplSyntaxOff
\begin{document}
\fakesc[\mytitle]{This is the title}
\title{\mytitle}
\author{An Author}
\maketitle
\fakesc{All inside this are fake caps} and this is normal
\end{document}
But this is just a hack and real small caps should be preferred. The argument to \fakesc must consist only of letters and spaces. No fancy characters or commands.
Best Answer
Unfortunately, I only know of Open Baskerville and it doesn't have small caps. That said, since it is open-source, you can easily create small caps from capitals using fontforge:
You can then use it with
fontspec:which gives: