Use specific font for small caps inside emph context

Question

I use \setmainfont{CMU Serif} to change the font. But CMU Serif doesn’t support small caps emphasis font as you can see with the following MWE:

\documentclass[a5paper,10pt,twoside,french]{book}
\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\begin{document}
\textsl{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textsl{}|)   \par
\textit{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textit{}|)   \par
\emph{GNU: \textsc{gnu}'s not Unix}   (\verb|\emph{}|)
\end{document}

Witch produce the following rendering:

But the default font (witch seems to be European Computer Modern) produce a well render according to this tread.

So is theire a way to set European Computer Modern just for small caps inside emphasis context (or reverse)?

the default font in lualatex is Latin Modern – David Carlisle Sep 24 '22 at 10:26 — David Carlisle, Sep 24 '22 at 10:26

David Carlisle · Accepted Answer · 2022-09-24T15:05:33.610

2

You can slant the upright small caps

\documentclass[a5paper,10pt,twoside,french]{book}
%%%\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}[ItalicFeatures= {
SmallCapsFont={CMU Serif},
SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps,FakeSlant=0.2} }]
\begin{document}
\textsl{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textsl{}|)   \par
\textit{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textit{}|)   \par
\emph{GNU: \textsc{gnu}'s not Unix}   (\verb|\emph{}|)
\end{document}

Or use Latin Modern small caps

\documentclass[a5paper,10pt,twoside,french]{book}
%%%\usepackage{fontenc}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}[ItalicFeatures= {
SmallCapsFont=LMRomanCaps10-Oblique}]
\begin{document}
\textsl{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textsl{}|)   \par
\textit{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textit{}|)   \par
\emph{GNU: \textsc{gnu}'s not Unix}   (\verb|\emph{}|)
\end{document}

edited Sep 24 '22 at 15:05

answered Sep 24 '22 at 10:23

David Carlisle

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Hmm… The slanting still ugly. It’s not a real emphasis. But we could use European Compuuter Modern for all small caps. – fauve Sep 24 '22 at 12:48
ec fonts are not Unicode encoded opentype so would take some more setup and some lack of warning about incorrect character if you used non ascii letters – David Carlisle Sep 24 '22 at 12:52
1

I found a solution working with Latin Modern as described here https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/79086/how-to-use-all-variants-of-latin-modern-roman-with-fontspec/79093#79093 with LMRomanCaps10-Oblique instead of ec. – fauve Sep 24 '22 at 13:25
@fauve ah I tried LM but fontspec didn't find the right font automatically: specifying that variant explicitly works as you say, I added it above – David Carlisle Sep 24 '22 at 15:08

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 24 '22 at 20:48

If you just need slanted/italic small caps for Latin letters, you can substitute with Latin Modern:

\documentclass[a5paper,10pt,twoside]{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}[
  SlantedFont=CMU Serif Roman Slanted,
  UprightFeatures={SmallCapsFont=LMRomanCaps10-Regular},
  ItalicFeatures={SmallCapsFont=LMRomanCaps10-Oblique},
  SlantedFeatures={SmallCapsFont=LMRomanCaps10-Oblique},
]
\begin{document}
\textsl{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textsl{}|)
\textit{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textit{}|)
\emph{GNU: \textsc{gnu}'s not Unix}   (\verb|\emph{}|)
\end{document}

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Sep 24 '22 at 06:08

Maybe we can fake \textsc.

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\begin{document}
\textsl{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textsl{}|) \par
\textit{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textit{}|) \par
\emph{\textsc{gnu}'s not Unix} (\verb|\emph{}|)
\textsl{\textup{G{\scriptsize NU}}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textsl{}|) \par
\textit{\textup{G{\scriptsize NU}}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textit{}|) \par
\emph{\textup{G{\scriptsize NU}}'s not Unix} (\verb|\emph{}|)
\textsl{G{\scriptsize NU}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textsl{}|) \par
\textit{G{\scriptsize NU}'s not Unix} (\verb|\textit{}|) \par
\emph{G{\scriptsize NU}'s not Unix} (\verb|\emph{}|)
\end{document}

Use specific font for small caps inside emph context

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