Layout Problems due to Using the Libertine Font in Beamer

Question

Using Linux Biolinum as the sans font in beamer leads to layout problems for several themes. This seems to be related to a bug in the font, since it does not provide the right x-value, see here. I am just wondering if there exists a work-around. I am using MikTeX and the latest libertine fonts.

Here is a MWE.

\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{CambridgeUS}
\usepackage{libertineotf}
\begin{document}
\section{Beamer}
  \begin{frame}{Beamer}
    \begin{enumerate}
      \item test
    \end{enumerate}
  \end{frame}
\end{document}

Maybe these pictures help to clearify my problem. Without the libertine package everything is exactly where it should be.

But with libertine the header, footer are misplaced and the enumeration symbol is too small.

Answer 1

Use the libertine package (libertine.sty 2012/10/19 - 0.03: Font Libertine/Biolinum - Herbert Voss)

i.e.

\usepackage{libertine}

instead of

\usepackage{libertineotf}

Answer 2

(This solution only applies to the T1 fonts available via libertine v5.1.2 dated 2011/06/06, and therefore does not properly address the posted question. If a moderator feels this answer should be deleted, please feel free to do so. At the moment I'm just leaving it here in case someone is still hanging on to v5.1.2 to be able to use Libertine and Biolinum in pdflatex.)

I asked the same question to comp.text.tex a couple of months back, and an interim solution was provided by Ulrike Fischer and Robin Fairbairns, by resetting the ex value in the .fd files.

The following was copies from my blog post summarising what I did:

Locate the Biolinum .fd files, which should be in $TEXMF/tex/latex/libertine/. I usually work with T1 encoding, so I homed in on the files t1fxb.fd, t1fxbf.fd, t1fxbj.fd, t1fxbjo.fd and t1fxbo.fd. (All these files, because sometimes I want the old-style numbers fonts.) I then added for each m-n series-shape:

\DeclareFontShape{T1}{fxb}{m}{n}{
<-> \fxl@@scale fxbr-t1
}{\fontdimen5\font=\fontcharht\font`\x}

I didn’t bother with the \DeclareFontShape of other series-shapes, as the above seems to have fixed the problem for me.

Answer 3

If one wants to use libertine-otf or fontspec, there is the possibility, as Khaled Hosny suggested, to edit the cached config file temp-linbiolinum-r.lua. This file can be found for TeXLive in ~/.texlive2011/texmf-var/luatex-cache/generic/fonts/otf/ and for MiKTeX in Miktex\luatex-cache\generic\fonts\otf. Quite at the end of that file is the entry os2_xheight=101, that needs to be replaced by os2_xheight=432,. When the cached config file is rebuild, this has to be repeated.