[lucida] need to manually specify bold/italic fonts with current fontspec

[Herbert Voss]

Am 20.01.19 um 23:59 schrieb Calum Mackay:
> The document lucidaot.pdf says:
> 
>> In older versions of fontspec, when specifying OpenType fonts by filename
>> (though not with system font lookups), it was necessary to explicitly
>> specify the italic, bold, and bold italic file names [with arguments 
>> to \setmainfont]. It should no longer be
>> necessary […]

 From current fontspec documentation:

"Fonts selected by filename must include bold and italic variants 
explicitly."

However, using the symbolic name

\setmainfont[Scale=0.92]{Lucida Bright OT}

should work.

Herbert


> 
> then I don't get bold or italic type.
> 
> Instead, I have to:
> 
>      \setmainfont[% main font
>          Scale=0.92,
>          ItalicFont=LucidaBrightOT-Italic.otf,
>          BoldFont=LucidaBrightOT-Demi.otf,
>          BoldItalicFont=LucidaBrightOT-DemiItalic.otf,
>      ]{LucidaBrightOT.otf}
> 
> and all is well.
> 
> Yet my fontspec appears to be current:
> 
> Package: fontspec 2019/01/18 v2.6l Font selection for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX
> 
> 
> Is this expected? Is the doc over-optmistic here?
> 
> 
> thanks very much indeed,
> calum.
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