[XeTeX] Problem with ITC Stone Sans Std

[Jonathan Kew]

On 17 Aug 2007, at 3:45 pm, Cyril Niklaus wrote:

>
> On 17 août 07, at 23:36, Jonathan Kew wrote:
>
>> On 17 Aug 2007, at 3:18 pm, Cyril Niklaus wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Looking at those fonts with FontLab :
>>> Family Name : ITC Stone Sans Std Medium
>>> Style Name : Regular
>>> Font Name and Full Name : StoneSansStd-Phonetic
>>>
>>>
>>> Family Name : ITC Stone Sans Std Phonetic
>>> Style Name : Regular
>>> Font Name and Full Name : StoneSansStd-Medium
>>>
>>> So there is no overlapping of names, besides the Style Name.
>>
>> Note that *neither* of these match the family name of "ITC Stone Sans
>> Std" that was given!
>>
>> However, I think what really matters is the "preferred" family name,
>> which FontLab calls "OT Family Name"; look in the OpenType-specific
>> names section of the Font Info dialog. I'm guessing they'll both have
>> "ITC Stone Sans Std" there.
> Yes, you are right, they both have the same OpenType-specific Family
> Name, but then so does the Bold, which is not selected…

Yes, but it probably has the "bold" bit set in the 'head' table (see  
the "Font is bold" checkbox in FontLab's main Names and Copyright  
panel), and/or a higher weight value in the 'OS/2' table (the  
usWeightClass field, see the Weight field in that dialog).

XeTeX considers several things when trying to decide which face to  
use; unfortunately, it doesn't always guess right.

JK