blank \url

[purlupar]

What fonts do people use here and how do you specify them?

I have been being bothered by two issues for quite a while now:

1. The text in \url{} is just not there. The specific parts of the font (for this "url" style) seem to be missing. What I see instead of my email address is .@- (a dot, an at sign, and a hyphen), which must be coming from my email containing these. Seems that all alphabetic characters are gone.
2. Titles etc. are not bold until I add \setmainfont{XITS}. Is this expected behavior?

(PS: Thanks @andrasbarany for making this!)

[andrasbarany]

Are you compiling your document using XeLaTeX? Have you set any options?

I just tried with the files from the repository and things work fine on my end.

I don't specify the monospace typeface at all in the class file, you could try specifying one (using \setmonofont{...} ). Maybe that solves your URL issue.

As for the bolds, no, that's not expected. If you compile with xelatex, the XITS fonts should be used.

You can share your files with me and I can check locally if you want.

[purlupar]

Thanks for your help!
I am using a workaround for my first issue (blank \url) now and use \texttt instead or \url, which seems to have the same effect optically.
I am using xelatex and biblatex/biber as by your suggestion in the readme. However I create my tex file via Emacs org-mode export. The created .tex file has as its header:

\documentclass[letter]{cascadilla-xelatex-biblatex}
\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\usepackage{grffile}
\usepackage{expex, xytree, multicol, vwcol, hyperref, biblatex, csquotes}
\usepackage[linguistics]{forest}
\addbibresource{.../myfile.bib}
\setmainfont{XITS}
\makeatletter \let\@fnsymbol\@arabic \makeatother
\author{...}
\date{\today}
\title{...}

What Emacs then does with the .tex file is the following (where %b and %f stand in for the current file name):

("xelatex -interaction nonstopmode %f" 
"biber %b" 
"xelatex -interaction nonstopmode %f" 
"xelatex -interaction nonstopmode %f")

As for issue 2 in my original post I suppose it's an OS problem with the fallback font. However, the fallback font should be XITS anyway (which I do have, now), shouldn't it?

[andrasbarany]

If you take out inputenc and fontenc, do you get bold fonts? You don't need those for xelatex anyway and if I use your preamble without setmainfont, inputenc, and fontenc, I get the right result.