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I'd like to use the package mathdesign, but it somehow makes problems with the german letter ß. My question is related to XeTeX: “ß” compiles as “SS”, German umlauts work but different because the reason seems to be mathdesign here.
The effect is best show with the following minimal example

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setdefaultlanguage[spelling=new,babelshorthands=true]{german}%
%\usepackage{utopia}\usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign}
\begin{document}
The german ß compiles to SS when used with \emph{mathdesign} package.
\end{document}

beeing compiled with line 4 uncommented resulting in desired result or with line 4 activated resulting in unwanted.
Ä, Ö, Ü and so on works fine.

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Bastian Ebeling
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3 Answers3

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Unless you really have to use polyglossia, you can try the following, which seems to work fine on my machine:

\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Utopia}
\begin{document}
The german ß compiles to ß when used with \emph{mathdesign} package.
\begin{equation}
  a^2 = b^2 + c^2
\end{equation}
\end{document}

enter image description here

This uses the OpenType version of Utopia (for text), available here, which I think is a bit more appropriate in XeTeX/LuaTeX. For math, mathdesign remains in use.

Nils L
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  • Hi, thanks for your example. But - is polyglossia buggy? I startedt using XeLaTeX about 18 months ago and red somewhere, that like babel in LaTeX, polyglossia !SHOULD! be used in XeLaTeX. What is the truth? Thanks. – Bastian Ebeling May 27 '13 at 19:09
  • @BastianEbeling here is a little bit of insight: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/88481/polyglossia-vs-babel – cgnieder May 27 '13 at 19:16
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    I've been following Ulrike Fischer's advice to just stick with babel (in Xe/LuaLaTeX) until you run into problems ...which so far I haven't; the scripts I've used it with have been working fine (Latin, Cyrillic, polytonic Greek). – Nils L May 27 '13 at 19:37
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If you want to use Charter rather than Utopia as your font, then you can also use xcharter instead of mathdesign:

\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{xcharter-otf}
\begin{document}
Straße, STRAẞE, {\scshape Straße}, $e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0$
\end{document}

enter image description here

See the xcharter pkg on CTAN for more info.

chsk
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  • The OP wanted Utopia, not Charter. – egreg Jul 26 '23 at 09:50
  • I am, of course, aware of that. But the issue being asked about is not specific to the font used; and in any case after over a decade, anyone visiting this question, facing the same problem, can fairly be assumed to not be the OP. – chsk Jul 26 '23 at 11:28
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Old thread, but things have changed in the last ten years.

With mathdesign

You need to replace the text font.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage[utopia]{mathdesign}

\setdefaultlanguage[spelling=new,babelshorthands=true]{german}
\setmainfont{erewhon}


\begin{document}


The German ß comes up right when used with \texttt{mathdesign} package.
[
a+b=c-\sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{1}{k^2}
]


\end{document}

enter image description here

With fourier

You still need to change the text font.

enter image description here

With fourier-otf

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\usepackage{fourier-otf}

\setdefaultlanguage[spelling=new,babelshorthands=true]{german}


\begin{document}


The German ß comes up right when used with \texttt{fourier-otf} package.
[
a+b=c-\sum_{k=0}^\infty \frac{1}{k^2}
]


\end{document}

enter image description here

egreg
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