[XeTeX] Problem with defining BoldFont

[Hooman Javidnia]

Vafa jaan salaam

I got confused about this, because, according to the fontspec manual,
to make the change [BoldFont ={* SemiBold}] should be issued. I had
the impression that "SemiBold" applies to all fonts, but as Jonathan
mentioned, these things are case sensitive. I just wanted to know what
is the proper way of knowing which switch to use when I want to change
an attribute of a font.

When I check the font Hypatia in Mac OS X fontbook, it gives the name
as "HypatiaSansPro-Semibold" whereas when we use the font we use
"Hypatia Sans Pro".

I am very new to the world xetex and I might be asking silly questions.

Cheers,
Hooman

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Hooman Javidnia
<hooman.javidnia at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks Mi. I tried that, but the specific font (That I have installed
> recently) doesn't show up in the list. When I issue the command:
>>> fc-list | grep -i "Hypatia"
>
> An empty list is returned, whereas the same command works fine for
> other fonts. Should I update the font cache? How?
>
> Thanks,
> Hooman
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:18 PM, Mi CHEN <chenmi1999 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> try fc-list and grep what u want, u will see the full name of matched
>> entries.
>>
>> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Hooman Javidnia <hooman.javidnia at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thanks Jonathan. Solved my problem. But now I have another question:
>>> How can I figure out what is the exact name of the font to be used in
>>> xetex?
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Hooman
>>>
>>> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Jonathan Kew <jfkthame at googlemail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>> > On 20 Apr 2009, at 23:27, Hooman Javidnia wrote:
>>> >
>>> >> Hello list,
>>> >> Here is a minimal example of what I have been trying to do and it
>>> >> doesn't work. All I need is to replace the bold face of the main font
>>> >> with SemiBold variant. I get an error message than I can't decipher. I
>>> >> have tried different things according to fontspec manual, but none
>>> >> worked for me.
>>> >>
>>> >> I would appreciate if somebody can tell me what is going wrong in
>>> >> here:
>>> >>
>>> >> \documentclass{article}
>>> >> \usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
>>> >> \usepackage{xunicode}
>>> >> \usepackage{xltxtra}
>>> >> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text, Scale=MatchLowercase}
>>> >> \setmainfont[BoldFont={* SemiBold}]{Arno Pro}
>>> >
>>> > Isn't the face called "Semibold", not "SemiBold"? I would expect this
>>> > to be case sensitive; most things are.
>>> >
>>> > If it complains it can't find your font, carefully checking the name
>>> > is always a good idea.
>>> >
>>> > JK
>>> >
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>> Mi
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