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catnap

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Registered: 2016-10-03

Posts: 131

[SOLVED] Fontin typeface only has capital letters

The following LaTeX document purports to use
the Fontin typeface. But when I compile it with
xelatex only capital letters are found in the resulting
PDF.

\documentclass{scrlttr2}

\usepackage{fontspec} 
\usepackage{marvosym} 
\usepackage[english]{babel} 


\selectlanguage{english}

\setlength\parindent{0pt} 

\defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}
\setmainfont[SmallCapsFont = Fontin SmallCaps]{Fontin} 
\setsansfont {Fontin} 

\renewcommand{\normalsize}{\fontsize{12.5}{17}\selectfont} 

\begin{document}

Here is the text of the document. 
 
\end{document}

I suspect that the problem is in my font configuration
because the code works in an other system (Ubuntu)
and because the Computer odern font does not suffer
a similar problem. However, the LaTeX compiler gives
no warnings related to the font.

How can I ensure that the lower case Fontin letters is
properly installed in my system?

Last edited by catnap (2016-11-13 16:55:47)

catnap

Member

Registered: 2016-10-03

Posts: 131

Re: [SOLVED] Fontin typeface only has capital letters

Some browsing on the topic revealed that the ImageMagic tood display
is able to preview fonts. When I applied the tool to preview Fontin typeface,
the installed Fontin typefaces - which come in many varieties - turned out to
include both upper and lower case letters, apart from the typeface
Fontin-SmallCaps. Apparently the LaTeX compiler automatically favors
this last typeface as the defaul if no specifications are given. When I changed the
preferred typeface to Fontin-Regular both upper and lower case latters
were rendered without problems.