Dear All,
I just bought a license for Mercury Script
(http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/fenotype/mercury-script/) and I would like to use
it with XeTeX.
Looking at the font with otfinfo it identifies some features:
$ otfinfo -f MercuryScript_Regular.otf
calt Contextual Alternates
kern Kerning
liga Standard Ligatures
lnum Lining Figures
salt Stylistic Alternates
smcp Small Capitals
swsh Swash
While looking with fontforge there are also some more variants for few letters:
Stylistic Sets ss1, ss2, ss3, ss4
If I try to select those variants it selects only the Small Caps feature and it
ignores all the others.
\newcommand{\Font}{Mercury Script Regular}
\newcommand{\Stringa}{Lorem ipsum}
Plain: {\fontspec{\Font}\Stringa}
Stylistic Alternate: {\fontspec[Style=Alternate]{\Font}\Stringa}
Swash: {\fontspec[Style={Swash}]{\Font}\Stringa}
Small Caps: {\fontspec[Letters=SmallCaps]{\Font}\Stringa}
Contextuals Alternate: {\fontspec[Contextuals=Alternate]{\Font}\Stringa}
I even tried with the RawFeature option.
Swash: {\fontspec[RawFeature=+swsh]{\Font}\Stringa}\\
Stylistic set 1: {\fontspec[RawFeature={+ss1}]{\Font}\Stringa}\\
Stylistic set 2: {\fontspec[RawFeature={+ss2}]{\Font}\Stringa}\\
Stylistic set 3: {\fontspec[RawFeature={+ss3}]{\Font}\Stringa}\\
Stylistic set 4: {\fontspec[RawFeature={+ss4}]{\Font}\Stringa}\\
I actually noticed that for all the letters it selects the Contextual Alternate
(but not for the Small Caps) and I think that it has some problems with the
kerning. If I use the font with Inkscape it works just fine, but inkscape is
not able to select OTF features. As a matter of facts I tried LuaTeX, with the
very same tex source, and it works almost perfectly (it is only unable to
select the Stylistic Sets).
When I compile with XeLaTeX it gives the warnings:
** WARNING ** Unable to read OpenType/TrueType Unicode cmap table.
** WARNING ** Failed to load ToUnicode CMap for font "MercuryScriptLight"
Thank you
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