[XeTeX] Font nuisances

[Andy Lin]

Gareth is right; that is how you use BoldFont. Take a look at the
example from the fontspec manual again. It's using the HN-Regular as
the bold font because it's heavier than HN-Ultralight.

-Andy

On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:05, David Perry <hospes.primus at verizon.net> wrote:
>
>>
>>>
>>> 2. Can anybody see what is wrong with the following?
>>>
>>> \fontspec[BoldFont={Bergamo Std},ItalicFont={Bergamo
>>> Std},BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std}]{Cardo}
>>
>> Yeah, you just declared the medium, upright font as bold and italic.
>> What you need is
>>
>> \fontspec[BoldFont={Bergamo Std-Bold}, ItalicFont={Bergamo Std-Italic},
>> BoldItalicFont={Bergamo St-BoldItalic}]{Cardo}
>>
> I don't think so.  See example 4 in the most recent fontspec manual, from
> which I copied this:
>
> \fontspec[BoldFont={Helvetica Neue}]{Helvetica Neue UltraLight}
>
> which makes Helvetica Neue act as the "bold" for Helvetica Neue Ultralight.