Text Formatting ⇒ Times New Roman font in XeTeX doesn't have smallcaps?

[senator]

Hi all,

I am recently writing an IEEE conference paper, using the IEEEtran class. As you may all know, in an IEEEtran paper, the section titles are typeset in "SmallCaps" face. It used to have no problem at all until yesterday I tried to use XeTeX.

I wanted to use XeTeX because I wanted to use the Times New Roman truetype font provided in Windows. Only XeTeX can use OS fonts. I was successful in using XeTeX except for one thing: The section titles are no longer in SmallCaps, but in ordinary roman! I think every font does not provide smallcaps directly. It is simply a lower-case to upper-case conversion and font size reduction combined. So there should be no difficulty for XeTeX to provide such functionality for the Times New Roman font.

The only two lines that I invoke special packages for XeTeX are the following:

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\usepackage{mathspec}
\setallmainfonts(Digits,Latin){Times New Roman}

The first line loads the mathspec package, which loads fontspec automatically. The second line says that we want the Times New Roman font for all text and math. This font is provided by Windows.

I want a solution. So, I am wondering if someone can point me to, or simply write himself, a package that implements the smallcaps of Times New Roman (or for general fonts). Thank you very much!

[Stefan Kottwitz]

Hi,

did you find a solution? I simply think, if those conference proceedings use small caps, but it's not working with Times New Roman and XeTeX, the proceedings would not use XeTeX or Times New Roman anyway, otherwise they would have the same issue. And I assume they won't have one paper in a font different than the others, and they won't compile with XeTeX instead of pdfLaTeX just for one paper if they don't do in general.

Stefan