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I would like, for example, to type the French word Pens{'{e}}es with the sqrcfamily font; however, it seems that the sqrcaps package cannot handle accents.

MWE:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{scalefnt}
\usepackage{sqrcaps}
\usepackage{xcolor} 

\begin{document}
\Huge 
\noindent With smallcaps: \\[15pt]
\hspace*{35pt} \textbf{\scshape{Pens{\'{e}}es}}

\vskip 55pt

\noindent With sqrcfamily font: \\[18pt]
\hspace*{45pt} {\textcolor{red}{\LARGE\selectfont\scalefont{3}\textbf{\sqrcfamily{Pens{\'{e}}es}}}}
\end{document}

Output:

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QUESTION: Is there a way to override this problem so I may use the sqrcfamily font to type such words? If not, can someone suggest a font currently available to LaTeX users that closely resembles the said font? I am using XeLaTex for the document that is requiring such formatting but I have observed the problem will also occur with PdfLaTex as well.

Thank you.

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    Off-topic: In order for \textbf{\scshape{Pens{\'{e}}es}} to be rendered in small-caps, you need to run \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}` in the preamble.
    – Mico
    Sep 4, 2021 at 17:02
  • @Mico OP mentioned that problem persisted when using pdflatex. And there is no tag for xelatex
    – I. Chekhov
    Sep 4, 2021 at 19:44
  • @I.Chekhov - There are tags for pdftex (which was used) and for xetex (which was not used).
    – Mico
    Sep 4, 2021 at 19:45
  • @David Carlisle Please kindly reread the question: "the problem will also occur for Pdflatex as well."
    – I. Chekhov
    Sep 4, 2021 at 19:46
  • @Mico Thank you. I will add xetex.
    – I. Chekhov
    Sep 4, 2021 at 19:47

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Perhaps the closest is another free paleographical font, Klaus-Peter Schaeffel’s 0400 Vergilius Sangallensis. Because it’s faithful to its manuscript models, it has no small caps. Using it with pdflatex would require lots of work, but with xelatex or lualatex it’s as easy as this:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{0400_vergilius_sangallensis.otf}
\begin{document}
\Huge
Pensées (or Pens\'{e}es)
\end{document}

output

You may also like his 2004 Capitalis Quadrata.

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  • This font is very nice and would suit my needs; however, when I run your code with Xelatex, after a while, it returns the error that 0400_vergilius_sangallensis.otf cannot be found. Do you have any idea as to why this error may have occurred. Is this a font that was made available to Latex users recently?
    – I. Chekhov
    Sep 4, 2021 at 17:56
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    It’s not in CTAN; you have to download it from the site I linked to.
    – Thérèse
    Sep 4, 2021 at 17:59
  • Ok. Thank you. I was afraid of that as I have never been able to do this successfully in the past. That's why I asked for a font currently available to Latex users. Perhaps my choice of words wasn't clear. In any case, is there a good set of instructions available somewhere that you could kindly point me to so that I may try to download the font into the proper place so that XeLatex can identify it? Thank you for your help.
    – I. Chekhov
    Sep 4, 2021 at 18:15
  • With fontspec, any well made and properly encoded OpenType or TrueType font is available to you, but how you install it depends on your operating system. I use GNU/Linux, where I simply put the font in /home/therese/.fonts/ and then issue the command fc-cache -frvv. There are also some GUI programs for installing fonts on Linux. I don’t know about other operating systems, but searching for ‘install font’ and the name of your operating system should produce useful results.
    – Thérèse
    Sep 4, 2021 at 18:30
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    @mlchristians All info is at schäffel.ch/allgemein_de.html
    – Thérèse
    Dec 1, 2022 at 13:27

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