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

[Pander]

In TeX you will have to activate the fake behaviour explicitly no matter which operating system you are using. See fontspec manual for how to use fakebold and fakeslant.

"David J. Perry" <hospes.primus at verizon.net> wrote:

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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