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

[Calum Mackay]

thanks very much for the reply, Herbert,

On 21/01/2019 7:56 am, Herbert Voss wrote:
>  From current fontspec documentation:
> 
> "Fonts selected by filename must include bold and italic variants 
> explicitly."

Ah! I hadn't spotted that, thanks.

I'd been using the filename so that the font came from my TeX tree, 
rather than from my system fonts (which also have Lucida installed), but 
I suppose there's no reason to do that?

And if the symbolic name allows for automatic side-loading of the 
associated fonts, that's a useful convenience.


Perhaps the lucidaot doc file could stand an update, in this case, since 
it seems to imply it should work with filenames and newer fontspec versions?

thanks again.

best regards,
calum.

> 
> 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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