How te get bold + small caps with latin modern or computer modern

Question

I'm trying to use xeLaTeX ... But I dont' get bold smallcap fonts with the standard font (latin modern or computer modern ?).

With LaTeX, I used this to solve the probleme because I know that bold smallcaps doesnt' exit with lmodern.

   \usepackage{lmodern} \usepackage{fix-cm}
   \rmfamily
   \DeclareFontShape{T1}{lmr}{b}{sc}{<->ssub*cmr/bx/sc}{}
   \DeclareFontShape{T1}{lmr}{bx}{sc}{<->ssub*cmr/bx/sc}{}

How to make something like this with xeLaTeX ? Perhaps using cm-unicode (for the missing fonts) ? But I don't understand how to do that ...

I've seen more post about this problem, but no solution was given.

Thank you.

\documentclass[a4paper,10pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{xunicode}

\begin{document}

\textsc{\textbf{Essai 1}}

\textbf{\textsc{Essai 2}}

{\fontseries{b}\fontshape{sc}\selectfont Essai 3}

{\fontseries{bx}\fontshape{sc}\selectfont Essai 3}

\end{document}

I already tried to use \setmainfont{CMU Serif} but I get an error :

! The font "CMU Serif" cannot be found.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

    \usepackage[tuenc]{fontspec}%for lualatex case

\setmainfont{CMU Serif}

\begin{document}

  not bold or caps

\textsc{small caps}    

\textbf{\textsc{bold small caps}}

\textbf{bold}

\end{document} 

And the log :

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!
! fontspec error: "font-not-found"
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! The font "CMU Serif" cannot be found.
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! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
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! For immediate help type H <return>.
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l.6 \setmainfont{CMU Serif}

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| When in doubt, ask someone for help!
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! 
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! 
! See the fontspec documentation for further information.
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! For immediate help type H <return>.
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l.6 \setmainfont{CMU Serif}

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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l.6 \setmainfont{CMU Serif}

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l.12 \textsc{small caps}

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Missing character: There is no l in font nullfont!
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Missing character: There is no a in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no p in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no s in font nullfont!

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l.14 \textbf{\textsc{bold small caps}}

I wasn't able to read the size data for this font,
so I will ignore the font specification.
[Wizards can fix TFM files using TFtoPL/PLtoTF.]
You might try inserting a different font spec;
e.g., type `I\font<same font id>=<substitute font name>'.

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Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no l in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no d in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no s in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no m in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no a in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no l in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no l in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no c in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no a in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no p in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no s in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no b in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no o in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no l in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no d in font nullfont!
Missing character: There is no 1 in font nullfont!
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LaTeX Font Warning: Some font shapes were not available, defaults substituted.

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Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 9525 strings out of 493589
 210792 string characters out of 6143513
 217372 words of memory out of 5000000
 12975 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 3956 words of font info for 17 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 1347 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 40i,4n,61p,10352b,235s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s

Output written on ECM_solution.pdf (1 page).

Answer 1

The log file shows you're using XeLaTeX on a “vanilla” TeX Live, but that the CMU Serif font is not available as a system font.

Running fc-cache -fsv by itself isn't sufficient, until you also make the TeX Live fonts available to the fontconfig library.

The two commands

> sudo cp $(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf
> sudo fc-cache -fsv

should do what you need. With > I represent the shell prompt. The file we're copying as 09-texlive.conf in /etc/fonts/conf.d contains

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
  <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
  <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</dir>
</fontconfig>

but this is not really important. What's important that after doing that setup, all fonts in the TeX Live main tree will be available to fontconfig and so also XeTeX will be able to find them by font name rather than only by file name.

If that doesn't work, you can always call CMU Serif by file name:

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage[tuenc]{fontspec}

\setmainfont{cmun}[
  Extension=.otf,
  UprightFont=*rm,
  ItalicFont=*ti,
  BoldFont=*bx,
  BoldItalicFont=*bi,
]

\begin{document}

not bold or caps \textsc{small caps}

\textbf{bold} \textbf{\textsc{bold small caps}}

\textit{italic} \textsc{\textit{italic small caps}}

\textbf{\textit{bold italic}} \textbf{\textit{\textsc{bold italic small caps}}}

\end{document}

Note that CMU Serif Italic and CMU Serif BoldItalic have no small caps glyphs, so you get normal italic and bold small caps in the third and fourth lines.

If the suggested procedure for fc-cache is successful, the code

\documentclass[11pt]{article}

\usepackage[tuenc]{fontspec}

\setmainfont{CMU Serif}

\begin{document}

not bold or caps \textsc{small caps}

\textbf{bold} \textbf{\textsc{bold small caps}}

\textit{italic} \textsc{\textit{italic small caps}}

\textbf{\textit{bold italic}} \textbf{\textit{\textsc{bold italic small caps}}}

\end{document}

should work with both XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX.

Answer 2

Solution given here (for my ubuntu 2016)

Copy the texlive-fontconfig.conf to /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf

> sudo cp $(kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFSYSVAR)/fonts/conf/texlive-fontconfig.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf

Modify /etc/fonts/conf.d/09-texlive.conf : (Source : http://www.tug.org/texlive/doc/texlive-en/texlive-en.html#x1-340003.4.4)

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
  <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype</dir>
  <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype</dir>
  <dir>/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/type1</dir>
  <selectfont>
    <rejectfont>
      <glob>/usr/local/texlive/2016/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/cm-unicode/*</glob>
    </rejectfont>
  </selectfont>
</fontconfig>

Run

> sudo fc-cache -fsv

Test with :

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[tuenc]{fontspec}
\setmainfont{CMU Serif}
\begin{document}
not bold or caps \textsc{small caps} \par
\textbf{bold} \textbf{\textsc{bold small caps}} \par
\textit{italic} \textsc{\textit{italic small caps}} \par
\textbf{\textit{bold italic}} \textbf{\textit{\textsc{bold italic small caps}}}
\end{document}