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Trying to set up a document in classical latin using babel (XeLaTeX via MiKTeX).

\documentclass{article} \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec} \usepackage[classicallatin]{babel} \babelprovide[casing=nouv]{classicallatin} \babelfont{rm}{EB Garamond} %\usepackage{ebgaramond} %\setmainfont{EB Garamond} \usepackage{lipsum} \begin{document} \section{Capitulum PRIMUM} Exempla: U V \=U u \=u uu vu wu \lipsum[1] \end{document}

with the following result:

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As you can clearly see, all the u's got converted into v, and U into V, but not their diacritic-ed forms. This only happens when I use \babelfont{rm}{EB Garamond}.

These are the cases where this (u turning into v) doesn't happen:

  • Using \setmainfont
  • Using package ebgaramond
  • Using \babelfont with other fonts (e.g. Times New Roman, Comic Sans)

What did I do wrong? Why is this the case?

Edit: Just to clarify, I want it to not have any conversion at all.

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The casing key of babel is for casing, that means it affects \MakeUppercase{u\=u v}.

What you see with EB garamond is a "font feature" as it has specific support for the language latin:

\documentclass{article} \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec} \setmainfont{EB Garamond}[Language=Latin] \begin{document} Exempla: U V \=U u \=u uu vu wu \end{document}

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There is not much you can do to get this replacement also with \=u, but if you want disable that you can force another language:

\babelfont{rm}[Language=Default]{EB Garamond}
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  • Perhaps fontspec (compiling with lualatex) allows creating a custom OpenType feature, than would perform the desired substitutions, using the existing characters in the font? Commented Oct 15 at 18:08

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