(Remark: This question was posted originally when the big news, TeX-wise, was the impending transition from TeXLive2013 to TeXLive2014. Since the issue identified in this posting persists in TeXLive2015, I've chosen to update the posting's title accordingly.)
Consider the following MWE:
% !TEX TS-program = lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\listfiles
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures={Common,Rare}]{Hoefler Text}
\begin{document}
ff fi fl ffi ffl fj ct st
\end{document}
When compiling this program on my system (MacOSX 10.9.2, MacTeX2013, luatex 0.76.0) under LuaLaTeX, I get the expected result, i.e., all ligatures are generated correctly:
However, if I switch to TeXLive2014 (currently in advanced beta), which employs luatex 0.79.1, no ligatures are created:
This problem doesn't arise under TeXLive2014 if I (i) compile the MWE under XeLaTeX instead of LuaLaTeX or (ii) use a different font, say, Adobe Garamond Pro
, Garamond Premier Pro
, or Latin Modern Roman
. (Of course, the latter font doesn't feature ligatures for fj, ct, and st, but ligatures are generated for ff, fi, fl, ffi, and ffl.)
Is there a setting that needs to be tweaked to enable ligatures when using Hoefler Text
?
For completeness, here are the files used by the LuaLaTeX/TeXLive2014 run:
LuaTeX, Version beta-0.79.1 (TeX Live 2014/dev) (rev 4971) (format=lualatex 2014.4.24)
*File List*
article.cls 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class
size10.clo 2007/10/19 v1.4h Standard LaTeX file (size option)
fontspec.sty 2013/05/20 v2.3c Font selection for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
expl3.sty 2014/01/07 v4646 L3 Experimental code bundle wrapper
l3names.sty 2014/01/04 v4640 L3 Namespace for primitives
l3bootstrap.sty 2014/01/04 v4640 L3 Experimental bootstrap code
luatex.sty 2010/03/09 v0.4 LuaTeX basic definition package (HO)
infwarerr.sty 2010/04/08 v1.3 Providing info/warning/error messages (HO)
ifluatex.sty 2010/03/01 v1.3 Provides the ifluatex switch (HO)
etex.sty 1998/03/26 v2.0 eTeX basic definition package (PEB)
luatex-loader.sty 2010/03/09 v0.4 Lua module loader (HO)
pdftexcmds.sty 2011/11/29 v0.20 Utility functions of pdfTeX for LuaTeX (HO)
ltxcmds.sty 2011/11/09 v1.22 LaTeX kernel commands for general use (HO)
ifpdf.sty 2011/01/30 v2.3 Provides the ifpdf switch (HO)
l3basics.sty 2014/01/04 v4642 L3 Basic definitions
l3expan.sty 2014/01/04 v4642 L3 Argument expansion
l3tl.sty 2013/12/27 v4625 L3 Token lists
l3seq.sty 2013/12/14 v4623 L3 Sequences and stacks
l3int.sty 2013/08/02 v4583 L3 Integers
l3quark.sty 2013/12/14 v4623 L3 Quarks
l3prg.sty 2014/01/04 v4642 L3 Control structures
l3clist.sty 2013/07/28 v4581 L3 Comma separated lists
l3token.sty 2013/08/25 v4587 L3 Experimental token manipulation
l3prop.sty 2013/12/14 v4623 L3 Property lists
l3msg.sty 2013/07/28 v4581 L3 Messages
l3file.sty 2013/10/13 v4596 L3 File and I/O operations
l3skip.sty 2013/07/28 v4581 L3 Dimensions and skips
l3keys.sty 2013/12/08 v4614 L3 Experimental key-value interfaces
l3fp.sty 2014/01/04 v4642 L3 Floating points
l3box.sty 2013/07/28 v4581 L3 Experimental boxes
l3coffins.sty 2013/12/14 v4624 L3 Coffin code layer
l3color.sty 2012/08/29 v4156 L3 Experimental color support
l3luatex.sty 2013/07/28 v4581 L3 Experimental LuaTeX-specific functions
l3candidates.sty 2014/01/06 v4643 L3 Experimental additions to l3kernel
xparse.sty 2013/12/31 v4634 L3 Experimental document command parser
luaotfload.sty 2014/02/05 v2.4-3 OpenType layout system
luatexbase.sty 2013/05/11 v0.6 Resource management for the LuaTeX macro progr
ammer
luatexbase-compat.sty 2011/05/24 v0.4 Compatibility tools for LuaTeX
luatexbase-modutils.sty 2013/05/11 v0.6 Module utilities for LuaTeX
luatexbase-loader.sty 2013/05/11 v0.6 Lua module loader for LuaTeX
luatexbase-regs.sty 2011/05/24 v0.4 Registers allocation for LuaTeX
luatexbase-attr.sty 2013/05/11 v0.6 Attributes allocation for LuaTeX
luatexbase-cctb.sty 2013/05/11 v0.6 Catcodetable allocation for LuaTeX
luatexbase-mcb.sty 2013/05/11 v0.6 Callback management for LuaTeX
fontspec-patches.sty 2013/05/20 v2.3c Font selection for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
fixltx2e.sty 2006/09/13 v1.1m fixes to LaTeX
fontspec-luatex.sty 2013/05/20 v2.3c Font selection for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
fontenc.sty
eu2enc.def 2010/05/27 v0.1h Experimental Unicode font encodings
eu2lmr.fd 2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
xunicode.sty 2011/09/09 v0.981 provides access to latin accents and many othe
r characters in Unicode lower plane
eu2lmss.fd 2009/10/30 v1.6 Font defs for Latin Modern
graphicx.sty 1999/02/16 v1.0f Enhanced LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
keyval.sty 1999/03/16 v1.13 key=value parser (DPC)
graphics.sty 2009/02/05 v1.0o Standard LaTeX Graphics (DPC,SPQR)
trig.sty 1999/03/16 v1.09 sin cos tan (DPC)
graphics.cfg 2010/04/23 v1.9 graphics configuration of TeX Live
pdftex.def 2011/05/27 v0.06d Graphics/color for pdfTeX
fontspec.cfg
t3cmr.fd 2001/12/31 TIPA font definitions
supp-pdf.mkii
epstopdf-base.sty 2010/02/09 v2.5 Base part for package epstopdf
grfext.sty 2010/08/19 v1.1 Manage graphics extensions (HO)
kvdefinekeys.sty 2011/04/07 v1.3 Define keys (HO)
kvoptions.sty 2011/06/30 v3.11 Key value format for package options (HO)
kvsetkeys.sty 2012/04/25 v1.16 Key value parser (HO)
etexcmds.sty 2011/02/16 v1.5 Avoid name clashes with e-TeX commands (HO)
epstopdf-sys.cfg 2010/07/13 v1.3 Configuration of (r)epstopdf for TeX Live
***********
.lua
files accompanyingluaotfload.sty
. But I can confirm the ligatures don't show up with the 2014/dev version.luaotfload-tool --cache=erase
after the update to tl 2014?fontloader
library. If the issue is reproducible with regular OpenType fonts then you hit a bug.