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Normall microtype tracking loosens the tracking of small caps. However, with fontspec's \setmainfont{ebgaramond}, small caps are completely disabled and I get a loose normal text,
as opposed to
with the corresponding font package and normal pdfLaTeX. I want to use LuaLaTeX for some fancy ligatures, and XeLaTeX messes everything up.
Using the ebgaramond package in LuaLaTeX doesn't help.
If you provide the instruction
\defaultfontfeatures{SmallCapsFeatures={Renderer=Basic}}
then the tracking option of the microtype package seems to work correctly:
% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\defaultfontfeatures{SmallCapsFeatures={Renderer=Basic}}
\setmainfont{EB Garamond}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\begin{document}
\textsc{Christianity} Christianity
\end{document}
\defaultfontfeatures{SmallCapsFeatures={Renderer=Basic}} seems to do the job if tracking is enabled. I'll update my example accordingly.
microtypedoesn't go well with luaLaTeX.\usepackage[tracking]{microtype}but while not interfering withmicrotype's other duties? In other words, can I achieve this effect while keepingmicrotypefor my other stuff?Renderer=Basic(see here). The upcoming version ofmicrotypewill also work with theFullrenderer.