[XeTeX] Fake old-style figures & small-caps with XeTeX?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 02:36:45AM +0200, Ernest Adrogué wrote:
> 23/07/10 @ 17:12 (+0200), thus spake enrico.gregorio at univr.it:
> > > Hi!
> > > 
> > > Is it possible to generate fake old-style figures & small
> > > capitals for fonts missing these glyphs with XeTeX.
> > > I used to use the mathpoz package that does exactly that,
> > > but something tells me it's not compatible with XeTeX.
> > 
> > 
> > I guess it's the "mathpazo" package, for Palatino. You can
> > substitute the text font with the TeX Gyre version:
> > 
> > 
> > \usepackage{mathpazo}
> > \setmainfont[Numbers=OldStyle]{TeX Gyre Pagella}
> > 
> > 
> > With declarations in this order, XeLaTeX should be happy: and indeed it is,
> > I've tried compiling the documentation of amsmath and all goes well.
> 
> I'll have to study this in more detail.
> I thought that "mathpazo" generated the small-caps and old-style
> figures by itself, but it seems that it doesn't.

Though there are some DTP and office applications that fake small caps,
I've never seen one that fakes oldstyle figure, I don't think it is even
possible.

>                                          It simply selects
> another font wich is URW Palladio with real small-caps and old-style
> figures added. I don't know what's the point in having a version of
> URW Palladio without small-caps and another one with, all in the
> same LaTeX installation.

Traditional TeX engines can only use small caps if they are in a separate
font.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer