<html><head></head><body>In TeX you will have to activate the fake behaviour explicitly no matter which operating system you are using. See fontspec manual for how to use fakebold and fakeslant.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">"David J. Perry" <hospes.primus@verizon.net> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; word-wrap:break-word; font-family: sans-serif">Does Linux "fake" bold and italic characters, if a font does not come with <br />true bold and italic versions? Windows does this; if Linux does also, it's <br />possible that the font you are using comes only in roman, and the bold you <br />see in LibreOffice is not real. Just a possibility -- <br /><br />David<br /><br />----- Original Message ----- <br />From: "Susan Dittmar" <Susan.Dittmar@gmx.de><br />To: <xetex@tug.org><br />Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:08 AM<br />Subject: [XeTeX] fonts: where to find? how to activate bold face?<br /><br /><br />> Hello folks,<br />><br />> I have to admit, that although I read through a lot of documentation, I<br />> still do not graps how fonts are handled. I have rather urgent needs for<br />> some basic features and hope one of you can answer my question without too<br />> much trouble.<br />><br />> What I h
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a document I use one of the system fonts (Angor Man <br />> Scaqh),<br />> which as far as I know is a truetype font, via<br />> \setmainfont{Argor Man Scaqh}<br />> \setromanfont{Argor Man Scaqh}<br />> \setsansfont{Argor Man Scaqh}<br />> (using the same fontface here is easier, for this special document, than<br />> re-defining things like section headings fonts). This works so far. Now I<br />> would like to have some texts in bold face. Although I can have bold text<br />> in this font with LibreOffice, \textbf{...} does not yield boldface.<br />><br />> Does one of you know ad hoc how I could enable boldface for this font?<br />><br />> Unfortunately I cannot give you a minimal example at the moment, as I am <br />> at<br />> a computer without xetex and without this font right now. In case it's<br />> needed, I can make one tonight.<br />><br />> Related with my search for a solution, I stumbled over the question
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to<br />> find the associated font. In case of Angor Man Scaqh, I tried a full<br />> filesystem search for filenames containing even only parts of this font<br />> name, and failed. Looks like I did not try the appropriate abbreviation.<br />> Is there an easy way to find out which font file is associated with a font<br />> name on a Linux system?<br />><br />> Thanks in advance for any hints,<br />><br />> Susan<br />><br />><br />><br />><hr /><br />> Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:<br />> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex</a> <br /><br /><br /><br /><hr /><br />Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.:<br /> <a href="http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex">http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex</a><br /></pre></blockquote></div></body></html>