[XeTeX] Charis SIL font problems in XeLaTeX

[Herbert Schulz]

On Nov 4, 2005, at 8:15 PM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

>
> Assuming you're using fontspec.sty, try:
>
>     \setromanfont[ItalicFont=Charis SIL Italic]{Charis SIL}
>
> or something along those lines, if XeTeX is failing to find the  
> italic face by itself. (Similarly for bold.) It seems to have  
> trouble associating some font families properly; this is a known  
> issue that I'd like to solve, if I can figure out the root cause  
> sometime.
>
> JK

Howdy,

Along a different line... I tried to make a book title in \textsl{}  
with Hoefler text but that came out as unslanted roman. I eventually  
use textit{}.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)