[lltx] [fontspec] selecting font features has no effect?

[Khaled Hosny]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 08:44:05PM +1030, Will Robertson wrote:
> On 31/03/2010, at 7:52 PM, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 4:57 PM, Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny at eglug.org> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 10:07:08AM +0800, Diederick C. Niehorster wrote:
> >>> Logs are attached in a zip, for
> >>> \setmainfont[Ligatures=TeX]{Arno Pro Italic} - font not found
> >> 
> >> Right now, I don't think you can get the italic font this way, as we
> >> only check for font family, I've to re-think about this.
> > 
> > Should it be possible to load font's like that (without using the
> > plain \font command, which is there for special needs)? Think it makes
> > sense for fontspec to select font families and automatically set the
> > regular, bold, italic, etc fonts actually.
> 
> You do need to be able to load a specific font face sometimes, so I'd say
> 
>   \setfontface\foo{Arno Pro Italic}
> 
> should be valid. (Say if you're using it as a swash face without an upright.)

Right, and that was the plan, but I just missed it; basically we should
try font family, if no match is found we then fallback to full name.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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