Problems using Expert Fonts

Question

I recently purchased an expert font, Calluna (exljbris). There is only one problem when using the font:

The font is encoded with Old Style numbers by default. I don't know how to access the Lining Numbers.

I've tried using Use Old Style Figures thinking the font encoding was switched, but alas, it doesn't work; it stays in Old Style. I have also tried \fontspec[Numbers={Lining}]{Calluna} in the preamble and that hasn't worked.

I use LyX 2.1.0; Windows 8.1; I use XeTeX and \fontspec package.

The Lining Numbers exist in the encoding; it is on the foundry's website, and I also tested it with Microsoft Office 2013 which has the option available.

My LaTeX preamble looks like:

\widowpenalty=10000
\clubpenalty=10000
%\raggedbottom
%\usepackage{dtklogos}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Ligatures={Historic,Rare,Discretionary,TeX},Contextuals=Swash]{Calluna}
%\pagenumbering{roman}
\usepackage{microtype}

Answer 1

Without a minimal working example, this answer must be an untested guess, but the problem seems to be that you tried \fontspec[Numbers={Lining}]{Calluna} in the preamble instead of

\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[Numbers=Lining]{Calluna}

\fontspec[Numbers={Lining}]{Calluna} would be appropriate for one-time use. E.g., if for some reason you wanted Calluna with lining numbers only in one quote, you could write

\begin{quote}
\fontspec[Numbers={Lining}]{Calluna}
12345
\end{quote}

That’s very far from being the most efficient way to change font, but it does work. In the preamble, however, you want \setmainfont with its arguments.

By the way, Ligatures=Rare and Ligatures=Discretionary are two ways of saying the same thing, so choose one. And Calluna does not have the hlig or cswh features, so remove Ligatures=Historic and Contextuals=Swash, otherwise your log file will fill up with distracting warnings. You could add Contextuals=Alternate, but calt should be on by default in xetex.

If you have both the serif and the sans, I would suggest using the font this way:

\defaultfontfeatures{Contextuals=Alternate,Ligatures={TeX,Rare},Numbers=Lining,SmallCapsFeatures={Kerning=Uppercase}}
\setmainfont{Calluna}
\setsansfont{Calluna Sans}

Even better, since the rare ligatures suggest a typographic tradition in which lining figures were not the default, I’d either use the old-style figures, or omit the rare ligatures.