[XeTeX] Font nuisances

[Gareth Hughes]

Dear David,

The errors you have been getting are font-not-found errors. I've never
been entirely sure which names fontspec likes for these derived faces.
However, the following works for me:

\setmainfont[ItalicFont={Bergamo Std Italic}, BoldFont={Bergamo Std
Bold}, BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std Bold Italic}]{Cardo}

I would usually put hyphens in these names, and the following also works.

\setmainfont[ItalicFont={Bergamo Std-Italic}, BoldFont={Bergamo
Std-Bold}, BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std-Bold Italic}]{Cardo}

However, what doesn't work is Bergamo Std-BoldItalic. Hence the errors.

Gareth.

David Perry wrote:
> Yes, I just realized that my example from the fontspec manual was not
> exactly parallel to the situation I have.  However, doing it as Gareth
> suggests generates all sorts of nasty error messages.
> 
> I just tried specifying the bold etc. by font file names; no errors, but
> no bold in the document either.
> 
> I'll study this more tomorrow when my brain is working better.
> 
> David
> 
> On 10/10/2010 11:19 PM, Andy Lin wrote:
>> Gareth is right; that is how you use BoldFont. Take a look at the
>> example from the fontspec manual again. It's using the HN-Regular as
>> the bold font because it's heavier than HN-Ultralight.
>>
>> -Andy
>>
>> On Sun, Oct 10, 2010 at 23:05, David Perry<hospes.primus at verizon.net> 
>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> 2. Can anybody see what is wrong with the following?
>>>>>
>>>>> \fontspec[BoldFont={Bergamo Std},ItalicFont={Bergamo
>>>>> Std},BoldItalicFont={Bergamo Std}]{Cardo}
>>>>
>>>> Yeah, you just declared the medium, upright font as bold and italic.
>>>> What you need is
>>>>
>>>> \fontspec[BoldFont={Bergamo Std-Bold}, ItalicFont={Bergamo Std-Italic},
>>>> BoldItalicFont={Bergamo St-BoldItalic}]{Cardo}
>>>>
>>> I don't think so.  See example 4 in the most recent fontspec manual,
>>> from
>>> which I copied this:
>>>
>>> \fontspec[BoldFont={Helvetica Neue}]{Helvetica Neue UltraLight}
>>>
>>> which makes Helvetica Neue act as the "bold" for Helvetica Neue
>>> Ultralight.
>>
>>
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