Font "Academicons" does not contain any OpenType `Script' information about academicons HOT 5 CLOSED

Hey,
I am the maintainer of fontawesome5. The problem is that the defaultfontfeatures apply to Academicons, but they do not make any sense there: There are no lowercase characters, so their scale can not be matched. I think fontspec should ignore MatchLowercase here, so this might be a fontspec bug.
The fontawesome5 package avoids this by not using fontspec. This should be possible even if "only" a ttf file is available, so if @diogo-fernan is interested I could write a Pull-Request to replace fontspec with a .fd file tomorrow.

In the short term @JeffreyRacine could probably fix the problem by moving \usepackage{academicons} before \defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures=TeX,Scale=MatchLowercase}.

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Hey Jeffrey,

It appears that the issue might be related with the lack of an OpenType Font (OTF) file from the academicons font, which is not the case with fontawesome5 that ships with an *.otf file. This can be seen in tufontawesomebrands.fd:

\DeclareFontShape{TU}{fontawesomebrands}{regular}{n}
  {<-> \UnicodeFontFile{FontAwesome5Brands-Regular-400.otf}{script=latn;}}{}

I will try to address this in the coming days.

Cheers,
Diogo

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Thanks for your kind response. It would be great to have this resolved, and accept my gratitude in advance. Best of luck!

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Thanks for taking the time to look into this. I am using R Markdown and pandoc which automatically generates the placement of \usepackage{}, so your helpful suggestion works if I manually edit the LaTeX file that is created by pandoc... anything you can do is most appreciated to resolve the issue...

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Feel free to make a pull request @zauguin :-)

Thanks!

Diogo

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