[Tex/LaTex] Minion Pro activate small caps for greek

fontspecsmall-caps

According to otfinfo, greek small capitals are supported in Minion Pro.

otfinfo --script=grek -f MinionPro-Regular.otf

...
smcp    Small Capitals
...

yet the following MWE

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Minion Pro}

\begin{document}
\textsc{Small Capitals}

\textsc{Πεζοκεφαλαία}
\end{document}

results in:

enter image description here

What option should I pass to fontspec in order to have small capitals with Minion Pro for greek Glyphs?

Best Answer

I think that the appropriate glyphs are not available. Using the MyFonts site for Minion Pro it is possible to do a 'live test' with text of your choice and picking small caps: enter image description here .

As you can see, the result is identical to the TeX result - no small caps.

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All things being equal, you're probably using Computer Modern Roman, not because iopart has loaded it, but because it's the default used if you don't explicitly specify any other. (Your pdf reader can confirm this for you. Usually all you need do is open the document then, depending on the reader, looking in Properties / Fonts. Look for fontnames like 'CMR10' (CM 10pt roman) and 'CMCSC10' (CM 10pt small caps).)

There are many solutions to your problem. Apart from explicitly rescaling your lining figures as Niel points out (tho take care that 'faking' small caps doesn't run you into, say, untoward kerning issues), two of the easiest are these:

If you wish to stay with computer modern, use \oldstylenums to convert normal "lining" (uppercase) figures to "oldstyle" ("text" or lowercase) figures. E.g., \textsc{fp}\oldstylenums{6}. Note, however, that some CMR oldstyle figures look less like osf than you might want (the digit '6' happens to be one of these).
Alternatively, you might prefer the look and feel of the oldstyle figures offered by different fonts. However, not every font offers these natively (i.e., you might need to apply the \oldstylenums command when using most other non-CMR fonts).

Here's some code that might help to check out many of the rather few fonts that open up text figures. Assuming each font is actually loaded on your system, one by one just uncomment and recomment each of the commented lines below, compiling each to see which look and feel you most prefer. Note, however, that this technique typesets all figures in your document in oldstyle. Nevertheless, it means you won't need to apply the \oldstylenums command at any time.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

%\usepackage[sc,osf]{mathpazo}   % Palatino with pazo math fonts
%\renewcommand*\rmdefault{pplx}  % Palatino with lining (uppercase) nums
%\renewcommand*\rmdefault{pplj}  % Palatino with text (lowercase or oldstyle) nums

%\usepackage[osf]{venturis}
%\usepackage[osf]{libertine}
%\usepackage[osf]{MinionPro}
%\usepackage[fulloldstylenums]{kpfonts}

\begin{document}
\textsc{fp9876543210}
9876543210
\end{document}

[Tex/LaTex] OpenType Kerkis and bold Small Caps with greek

I guess bold small caps is so uncommon that the fontspec authors didn't consider it. As a workaround you could separately define a new font command for bold small caps.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[
    UprightFont = Kerkis,
    ItalicFont = KerkisItalics,
    SlantedFont = KerkisItalics,
    BoldFont = Kerkisb,
    BoldItalicFont = Kerkisbi,
    BoldSlantedFont = Kerkisbi,
    SmallCapsFont = KerkisSmallCaps]
    {Kerkis}

\newfontface\bfsc{KerkisSmallCaps-Bold}

\begin{document}
\textsc{κείμενο στα ελληνικά}

{\bfsc κείμενο στα ελληνικά}
\end{document}

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