No Small cap f in EB Garamond-Regular font

[LisaLaus]

The small f in the Regular font does not point to the letter f GID 476 Unicode 0066, but to GID 937. This is why this letter cannot be transformed into small cap GID 1241 base U 0066 but stays as a normal f GID 937.
I am using Quarkxpress.

[MRoth1910]

I don't pretend to understand how this works. Is the result acceptable if you use SS1? (not to dismiss the issue — this is particularly aggravating in certain contexts like LaTeX.

[LisaLaus]

What is SS1 and how to use it?

[MRoth1910]

That is, style set one, usable wherever you can access the full opentype features (i.e. in almost all programs — Adobe products, Apple Pages, Scribus, I think Quarkexpress but notI Word). I tested out inputting the Unicode character and sure enough it’s incorrect: What should be small-cap F becomes f when U+0066 is entered. But SS1 works.

[RGB-es]

That is, style set one, usable wherever you can access the full opentype features (i.e. in almost all programs — Adobe products, Apple Pages, Scribus, I think Quarkexpress but notI Word). I tested out inputting the Unicode character and sure enough it’s incorrect: What should be small-cap F becomes f when U+0066 is entered. But SS1 works.

Notice that for this version of EBGaramond, +ss01 (not ss1) does the same as +pcap: it uses "petit caps" which are smaller than small caps.

BTW, LibreOffice Writer and, of course, XeTeX also provides access to OpenType features ;)

[MRoth1910]

Yeah, that list wasn’t comprehensive; also, the leading 0 may or may not be needed… that’s why I didn’t include it.

Didn’t realize that the style set is petit caps, but it works if it doesn’t matter (which is why I offered it only as a temporary solution) And I’m not entirely sure what is going on, because small caps produces correct small caps from what I can see, for all letters, even though directly entering Unicode.

XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX produce small caps without pitching a fit. I run fontspec and the macro textsc. So it “works” for lack of a better word, but what doesn’t work is the Unicode entry itself.