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Normall microtype tracking loosens the tracking of small caps. However, with fontspec's \setmainfont{ebgaramond}, small caps are completely disabled and I get a loose normal text,

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as opposed to

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with the corresponding font package and normal pdfLaTeX. I want to use LuaLaTeX for some fancy ligatures, and XeLaTeX messes everything up.

Using the ebgaramond package in LuaLaTeX doesn't help.

Werner
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Simon Kuang
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  • microtype doesn't go well with luaLaTeX. –  Sep 12 '13 at 00:04
  • @HarishKumar Is there a way to loose-track small caps outside of \usepackage[tracking]{microtype} but while not interfering with microtype's other duties? In other words, can I achieve this effect while keeping microtype for my other stuff? – Simon Kuang Sep 12 '13 at 00:06
  • There is beta version of microtype but I am not sure as to what extent it is good. I don't have much experience with lua. Let us wait for luatexperts :-) –  Sep 12 '13 at 00:23
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    You need to load the font with Renderer=Basic (see here). The upcoming version of microtype will also work with the Full renderer. – Robert Sep 12 '13 at 17:12
  • This is also the same problem. Duplicate? – Robert Sep 12 '13 at 17:20

1 Answers1

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If you provide the instruction

\defaultfontfeatures{SmallCapsFeatures={Renderer=Basic}}

then the tracking option of the microtype package seems to work correctly:

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% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{SmallCapsFeatures={Renderer=Basic}}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\begin{document}
\textsc{Christianity} Christianity
\end{document}
Mico
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  • You are not using tracking in the example. – Robert Sep 12 '13 at 17:16
  • @Robert - Thanks for pointing this out. Adding the instruction \defaultfontfeatures{SmallCapsFeatures={Renderer=Basic}} seems to do the job if tracking is enabled. I'll update my example accordingly. – Mico Sep 12 '13 at 18:51