Fonts & Character Sets ⇒ Times New Roman \texts{} with XeLatex not working!

[Chris_1996]

Hello,

I have a problem. I use the package fontspec to write an essay with the font Times New Roman. \textsc{} in XeLatex is not working.
If I use:
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}[
SmallCapsFont=TeX Gyre Termes,
SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps},
]
it is only working in LuaLatex but not in XeLatex. I can not use LuaLatex because some Inkscape pictures look weird when I
compile it with LuaLatex.

The error message of compiling with XeLatex always gives me Tex Gyre Termes not found.

Can anybody please help me?
Thx

[Ijon Tichy]

LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX have different methods to find fonts by font name. Usually XeLaTeX doesn't have problems to find system fonts by name, but usually fonts in the TEXMF trees are not system fonts. However you can install them as system fonts. How this can be done depends on the system.

Instead of loading fonts by font name you can also try to load them by file name. See the fontspec manual for more information on how to load fonts by file name instead of font name.

BTW: Here the following does work without problems with LuaLaTeX and XeLaTeX:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{texgyretermes-regular.otf}[
  BoldFont=texgyretermes-bold.otf,
  ItalicFont=texgyretermes-italic.otf
]

\begin{document}
Roman, \textbf{bold}, \textit{italic}, \textsc{Small Caps}
\end{document}

[Chris_1996]

Thanks for the answer. That would work.
Is there a possibility to only use Tex Gyre Termes for \textsc{}?
The rest should be in the real Times New Roman.

[Ijon Tichy]

I do not have the original Adobe font, so I cannot test it. Have you tried to load texgyretermes-regular.otf as the SmallCapsFont like shown for the BoldFont or ItalicFont together with the activation of the SmallCapsFeature?

[Chris_1996]

I tried:
\setmainfont{Times New Roman}[
SmallCapsFont=texgyretermes-regular.otf
]
But it didn't work.

[Ijon Tichy]

Please use code tags to mark code in postings.

Have you tried:

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\setmainfont{Times New Roman}[
  SmallCapsFont=texgyretermes-regular.otf,
  SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps},
]

Can you please show warnings and errors from the log file?

[Chris_1996]

! Package fontspec Error: The font "texgyretermes-regular.otf" cannot be
(fontspec) found.

! Cannot use \XeTeXOTcountfeatures with nullfont; not an OpenType Layout font.

! Cannot use \XeTeXOTfeaturetag with nullfont; not an OpenType Layout font.

[Ijon Tichy]

Strange. If my complete example works, xelatex should find the font. However you can try to copy the font files in the document directory. Then it should always be found.

[Chris_1996]

I copied texgyretermes-regular.otf in the document directory but it didn't work.
Actually I already put it there and sent you the errors.

[Ijon Tichy]

Sorry, but I can only tell you that with Linux and TeX Live 2019 or TeX Live 2020-pretest following is working out of the box with XeLaTeX:

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[
  SmallCapsFont=texgyretermes-regular.otf,
  SmallCapsFeatures={Letters=SmallCaps}
]{LinLibertine_R.otf}

\begin{document}
Roman, \textsc{Small Caps}
\end{document}

pdffonts shows the used fonts as:

name                                 type              encoding         emb sub uni object ID
------------------------------------ ----------------- ---------------- --- --- --- ---------
PJBCAJ+LinLibertineO-Identity-H      CID Type 0C       Identity-H       yes yes yes      5  0
LGYHGZ+TeXGyreTermes-Regular-Identity-H CID Type 0C       Identity-H       yes yes yes      7  0

And the result is:

I've used Linux Libertine because of the not available original Times New Roman.