[XeTeX] Using Gentium with XeteX
Easter Sunshine
eastersunshine at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 27 22:36:33 CEST 2007
Fontforge, available on a wide range of platforms, can automatically embolden a font for you. I think someone said that the feature doesn't work too well. It's somewhere under the Element -> Transform menu.
Of course, as the others have said, it is bad idea to use false bolds in place of true bold glyphs. You should use Fontforge's false bolds if you have no other choice.
Easter Sunshine.
Till Rettig <till.rettig at gmx.de> wrote: Hello,
I started using Gentium a while ago with XeteX, but realized, that there
is a caveat I cannot solve: The font comes only in two faces: normal and
italic. How do I achive bold face? In openoffice or ms word this is no
problem, the program obviously has some font information that lets it
scale the fonts accordingly. Is there any option in the fontspec package
that let you do the same? I guess the idea behind this is, that italic
face has different shapes while the bold version is only a scaled
version of the normal or italic face where all lines are scaled
accordingly. It seems the font designer thought this method is good
enough to get sufficient results. But how do I tell XeteX to do the same?
Thanks in advance
Till Rettig
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