No Small cap f in EB Garamond-Regular font
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The small f in the Regular font does not point to the letter f GID 476 Unicode 0066, but to GID 937. This is why this letter cannot be transformed into small cap GID 1241 base U 0066 but stays as a normal f GID 937.
I am using Quarkxpress.
I don't pretend to understand how this works. Is the result acceptable if you use SS1? (not to dismiss the issue — this is particularly aggravating in certain contexts like LaTeX.
What is SS1 and how to use it?
That is, style set one, usable wherever you can access the full opentype features (i.e. in almost all programs — Adobe products, Apple Pages, Scribus, I think Quarkexpress but notI Word). I tested out inputting the Unicode character and sure enough it’s incorrect: What should be small-cap F becomes f when U+0066 is entered. But SS1 works.
That is, style set one, usable wherever you can access the full opentype features (i.e. in almost all programs — Adobe products, Apple Pages, Scribus, I think Quarkexpress but notI Word). I tested out inputting the Unicode character and sure enough it’s incorrect: What should be small-cap F becomes f when U+0066 is entered. But SS1 works.
Notice that for this version of EBGaramond, +ss01 (not ss1) does the same as +pcap: it uses "petit caps" which are smaller than small caps.
BTW, LibreOffice Writer and, of course, XeTeX also provides access to OpenType features ;)
Yeah, that list wasn’t comprehensive; also, the leading 0 may or may not be needed… that’s why I didn’t include it.
Didn’t realize that the style set is petit caps, but it works if it doesn’t matter (which is why I offered it only as a temporary solution) And I’m not entirely sure what is going on, because small caps produces correct small caps from what I can see, for all letters, even though directly entering Unicode.
XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX produce small caps without pitching a fit. I run fontspec and the macro textsc. So it “works” for lack of a better word, but what doesn’t work is the Unicode entry itself.