[XeTeX] Problem with ITC Stone Sans Std

[William Adams]

On Aug 16, 2007, at 7:09 AM, Jonathan Kew wrote:

>
> On 16 Aug 2007, at 9:47 am, Cyril Niklaus wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I'm trying to use ITC Stone Sans Std in one of my documents, but if I
>> specify the font like this:
>> \setsansfont[Scale=MatchLowercase]{ITC Stone Sans Std}, the font
>> selected is ITC Stone Sans Std Phonetic, not the Medium. And since
>> the Phonetic only has a few glyphs, problems arise.
>> I know that by specifying Medium, the right font is selected, but I
>> was curious to know if anyone here would venture a guess as to why
>> the Phonetic fonts gets selected by default.
>>
>> ITC Stone Sans Std otf, 2003 Adobe.
>
>
> I don't have a copy of this font family, so can't look at it in
> detail to see if there would be ways to improve the heuristics xetex
> uses when you just specify a family name. I guess both the "Medium"
> and "Phonetic" faces share the same family name and both have
> "regular"-looking style bits, so xetex can't reliably tell which one
> it should pick as the default face for that family.

There're a number of fonts which have this difficulty --- ornaments  
and border fonts can also cause it --- I posted a list of fonts I'd  
tried out a while back. Naming the text face explicitly is the work- 
around for now.

William

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William Adams
senior graphic designer
Fry Communications