[XeTeX] Font Warning Font shape Vollkorn it undefined

[Pander]

On Tue, October 26, 2010 17:31, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 04:19:33PM +0200, Pander wrote:
>> On Mon, October 25, 2010 13:06, Pander wrote:
>> > Hi all,
>> >
>> > I'm trying to use Vollkorn in regularm bold, italic and bold italic.
>> > However, italic and bold italic are not recognised by XeLaTeX.
>> >
>> > I'm using the following XeLaTeX test document:
>> >
>> > \documentclass{article}
>> > \usepackage{xltxtra}
>> > \begin{document}
>> > \fontspec{Vollkorn}
>> > ABCD {\bfseries ABCD} {\itshape\bfseries ABCD} {\itshape ABCD}
>> > \end{document}
>> >
>> > LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `EU1/Vollkorn(0)/m/it' undefined
>> > (Font)              using `EU1/Vollkorn(0)/m/n' instead on input line
>> 5.
>> >
>> > With the following fonts installed:
>> >   http://friedrichalthausen.de/Vollkorn-2.1.zip
>> >
>> > How can I fix this when fontconfig is telling me the following:
>> >
>> > $ fc-list |grep -i vollkorn
>> > Vollkorn,Vollkorn Regular:style=Regular
>> > Vollkorn,Vollkorn Bold Italic:style=Bold Italic,Regular
>> > Vollkorn,Vollkorn Bold:style=Bold,Regular
>> > Vollkorn,Vollkorn Italic:style=Italic,Regular
>>
>> Now that this is reproducable on both Linux and OSX, what is the next
>> step
>> to take to solve this?
>
> I think the font is to be blamed here, the family name for the four
> styles includes the style name as well; Vollkorn Regular, Vollkorn Bold
> etc. but it should be Vollkorn only. The fact that it works with other
> apps shows more tolerance to broken font names than XeTeX (incidentally
> it works with luaotfload, as the one who wrote the font name matching
> code, I'm a bit surprised). Since this is a libre font, you can legally
> modify and fix it your self (I just did, after renaming the family name
> to just Vollkorn for the four styles, it worked just fine), and you
> should also notify the authors to fix it at their side (it might break
> font matching in some other application, too).

Author has been notified. Thanks all for your feedback.

> Regards,
>  Khaled
>
> --
>  Khaled Hosny
>  Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
>  Free font developer
>
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