[lltx] Fwd: Re: fontspec: No small caps with `Ligatures=TeX'

[Khaled Hosny]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 05:34:09PM +0300, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 11:53:30PM +0930, Will Robertson wrote:
> > Well found! I guess Élie Roux or whoever is in charge of this
> > business should try and correct the naming algorithm. After all
> > "Bold Regular" doesn't seem completely incorrect, albeit nonstandard.
> 
> Just tell whoever in charge of Linux Libertine to fix the font, the name
> matching code is already complex enough. I could ignore the style name
> completely and rely on the numerical wight value in the OS/2 table, but
> that would cause a load of other bugs (SemiBold, DemiBold, anyone?).

I think that was very dismissive. Technically speaking, if the font has
the proper numeric weight value, then it is not broken, but I need to
learn how to use that in away that does not break other fonts. Special
casing "Bold Regular" is not an option, what about "Bold Roman", "Bold
Book", "Bold Medium" etc.

Regards,
 Khaled


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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer