Font for small caps in (French style) figure caption labels

Question

Polyglossia {french} in Memoir Class. My preferred font is Open Sans. MWE compiled with XeLaTeX:

\documentclass[a4paper,article]{memoir}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
  \setdefaultlanguage{french}
  \setmainfont{Open Sans}
\begin{document}
  C'est un test pour "small caps": Fig.~\ref{fig:myfigure}.
  \begin{figure}[ht] \centering
    \includegraphics{nothing}
    \caption{c'est ma figure}\label{fig:myfigure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

- generates warning:

LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape EU1/OpenSans(0)/m/sc' undefined (Font) usingEU1/OpenSans(0)/m/n' instead on input line 10.

The output is perfectly readable, but with normal font for "Fig" in the caption: fallback French caption label in Open Sans

In an attempt to get rid of the warning, and have French-style "Fig" shape, I tried to have small caps rendered in a font that can handle them (like one of the TeX Gyres), but nothing would work on my Arch Linux Tex-Live setup.

Changing the setmainfont line to use TeX Gyre Heros, like this:

\setmainfont[
  Extension=.otf,
  UprightFont= *-regular,
  BoldFont=*-bold,
  ItalicFont=*-italic,
  BoldItalicFont=*-bolditalic,
]{texgyreheros}

- does work:

correct shaped French caption label in TeX Gyre Heros

- but for my document, TeX Gyre Heros is a little heavy.

Is there a way to make the caption use a small-caps-compatible font (ideal), or to not use small-caps at all (thus removing the Warning)?

My various attempts, like \[captionnamefont]{\upshape}, achieved nothing.

karlkoeller · Answer 1 · 2015-03-03T22:43:05.837

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I don't know whether there is a suitable font for your needs, but if you don't want to use small caps at all, you can add these lines in your preamble:

\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\LetLtxMacro{\scshape}{\upshape}

MWE

\documentclass[a4paper,article]{memoir}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
  \setdefaultlanguage{french}
  \setmainfont{Open Sans}
\usepackage{letltxmacro}
\LetLtxMacro{\scshape}{\upshape}
\begin{document}
  C'est un test pour "small caps": Fig.~\ref{fig:myfigure}.
  \begin{figure}[ht] \centering
    \includegraphics{nothing}
    \caption{c'est ma figure}\label{fig:myfigure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

enter image description here

edited Mar 03 '15 at 22:43

answered Mar 03 '15 at 22:33

karlkoeller

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Since \textsc internally uses \scshape, it's necessary to redefine only the latter, but it should be better done with \LetLtxMacro (see When to use \LetLtxMacro – egreg Mar 03 '15 at 22:45
@egreg You're right thanks. Changed the answer accordingly. – karlkoeller Mar 03 '15 at 22:48
This answer is possibly more generally helpful, but for my needs Gonzalo Medina's answer seems more succinct. – joharr Mar 04 '15 at 11:20

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 03 '15 at 22:38

The culprit here is the file gloss-french.ldf which has

\def\figurename{\textsc{Fig.}}

so you can override this using, for example,

\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{Fig.}}

A complete example:

\documentclass[a4paper,article]{memoir}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage{french}
\setmainfont{Open Sans}

\addto\captionsfrench{\def\figurename{Fig.}}  

\begin{document}
  C'est un test pour "small caps": Fig.~\ref{fig:myfigure}.
  \begin{figure}[ht] \centering
    \includegraphics{nothing}
    \caption{c'est ma figure}\label{fig:myfigure}
\end{figure}
\end{document}

enter image description here

The only other part in which small-caps are forced is for the table name, so you might need also

\def\tablename{Tab.}

inside the \addto\captionsfrench

Font for small caps in (French style) figure caption labels

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