[XeTeX] [tex-live] `BoldFont' feature for XeTeX?

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 7 mars 08 à 12:17, Jonathan Kew a écrit :

> I hope a few people will try this out, and let me know of any
> problems before this is merged into the 2008 TeX Live release.

Just tried with the newly compiled xetex, xdv2pdf and xdvipdfmx, using  
the test files

%!TEX TS-program = xetex-xdv2pdf
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\font\A = "Cambria" at 24pt
\A Some text\par
\font\B = "Cambria:embolden=5" at 24pt
\B Some synthetic bold text\par
\font\C = "Cambria Bold" at 24pt
\C Some natural bold text\par
\end

for xdv2pdf and

%!TEX TS-program = xetex-xdvipdfmx
%!TEX encoding = UTF-8 Unicode
\font\A = "Cambria" at 24pt
\A Some text\par
\font\B = "Cambria:embolden=5" at 24pt
\B Some synthetic bold text\par
\font\C = "Cambria Bold" at 24pt
\C Some natural bold text\par
\end

for xdvipdfmx (the %!TEX flags are Mac-specific, as is xdv2pdf).

The xdv2pdf run was after noticing xdvipdfmx is now the default XDVI- 
to-PDF driver on the Mac as well, and hence creating for TeXShop a new  
engine XeTeX-xdv2pdf.engine containing

#!/bin/tcsh

set path= ($path/usr/texbin /usr/local/bin)
xetex -output-driver="xdv2pdf" "$1"

so as to specify use of xdv2pdf.

Output appended. Natural bold looks definitely nicer that synthetic  
bold!

Bruno Voisin

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