[XeTeX] Nested \textit in an italic fontinstance

[Will Robertson]

On 13/09/2006, at 0:23 , Peter Dyballa wrote:

>
> Am 12.09.2006 um 11:06 schrieb nickkk at phonecoop.coop:
>
>> {\italic Italic \textit{Surely this should be Italic too?}}
>
> In this line the \textit{} text is set upright. So XeTeX imitates  
> the \emph{} command here, which is wrong, because \textit{} ­ \emph{}.

Oh, I get it.
This is just a side-effect of XeTeX's auto-font identification.
What would you expect to happen trying to find the italic version of  
an already italic font?

In the latest version of fontspec, you can say
   \newfontface\myfont[...]{...}
and no bold or italic fonts will be loaded for that LaTeX font family.

Will
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