How to use old style numbers with xelibertine

Question

I use the package:

\usepackage{xelibertine}

It works fine. But I do not know how to make the numbers old style. So I tried

\defaultfontfeatures{Numbers=OldStyle}

But it's not working.

How can I solve my issue?

Answer 1

The xelibertine package is quite old and unsupported. I find this in the SourceForge site of LinuxLibertine.org

Linux Libertine 5.0 is not working with the old xelibertine.sty. Will be an update soon?

The up-to-date interface to Linux Libertine for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX is the package libertineotf.

In order to get oldstyle digits, you can call it by

\usepackage[libertine={Ligatures=TeX,Numbers=OldStyle}]{libertineotf}