[XeTeX] fonts: where to find? how to activate bold face?

David J. Perry hospes.primus at verizon.net
Wed Jan 25 04:59:31 CET 2012


Does Linux "fake" bold and italic characters, if a font does not come with 
true bold and italic versions?  Windows does this; if Linux does also, it's 
possible that the font you are using comes only in roman, and the bold you 
see in LibreOffice is not real.  Just a possibility -- 

David

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Susan Dittmar" <Susan.Dittmar at gmx.de>
To: <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2012 8:08 AM
Subject: [XeTeX] fonts: where to find? how to activate bold face?


> Hello folks,
>
> I have to admit, that although I read through a lot of documentation, I
> still do not graps how fonts are handled. I have rather urgent needs for
> some basic features and hope one of you can answer my question without too
> much trouble.
>
> What I have: In a document I use one of the system fonts (Angor Man 
> Scaqh),
> which as far as I know is a truetype font, via
> \setmainfont{Argor Man Scaqh}
> \setromanfont{Argor Man Scaqh}
> \setsansfont{Argor Man Scaqh}
> (using the same fontface here is easier, for this special document, than
> re-defining things like section headings fonts).  This works so far. Now I
> would like to have some texts in bold face.  Although I can have bold text
> in this font with LibreOffice, \textbf{...} does not yield boldface.
>
> Does one of you know ad hoc how I could enable boldface for this font?
>
> Unfortunately I cannot give you a minimal example at the moment, as I am 
> at
> a computer without xetex and without this font right now. In case it's
> needed, I can make one tonight.
>
> Related with my search for a solution, I stumbled over the question how to
> find the associated font. In case of Angor Man Scaqh, I tried a full
> filesystem search for filenames containing even only parts of this font
> name, and failed. Looks like I did not try the appropriate abbreviation.
> Is there an easy way to find out which font file is associated with a font
> name on a Linux system?
>
> Thanks in advance for any hints,
>
> Susan
>
>
>
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