[XeTeX] linguistics trees using qtree: no go

Will Robertson wspr81 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 31 22:54:02 CET 2007


On 01/02/2007, at 2:12 , Bruno Voisin wrote:

> However, the /B font "modifier" of XeTeX doesn't work fully for this
> font: the font comes in 4 weights Light, Regular, Semibold and Bold;
> Light/B switches to Semibold, as I suppose is intended, but Regular/B
> switches also to Semibold, not Bold. Arguably, the Bold weight is a
> bit heavy to my untrained eyes. But isn't Regular/B supposed to yield
> Bold?

This is all a little black magic, as I understand it. Does Semibold/B  
go to Bold? I think Jonathan's intention was to have /B move up the  
boldness scale one step at a time, but who knows if the font vendors  
embed the right information, correctly, inside their fonts.

Will


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