Re: Problem with font mapping

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Mika Ritola wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I seem to be running into all sorts of font problems. Now my document 
> has suddenly turned bold. For example, running the following code 
> results in "Test." being rendered in bold characters.
> 
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmainfont[Adobe Garamond Pro]
> 
> \starttext
> Test.
> \stoptext
> 
> Running "mtxrun --script font --list --pattern="*Garamond*" --all" 
> reveals that there's something fishy about the font mapping:
> 
> adobegaramondpro => agaramondprosemibold => AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf
> adobegaramondprobold => agaramondprosemibold => AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf
> adobegaramondprobolditalic => agaramondprosemibolditalic => 
> AGaramondPro-SemiboldItalic.otf
> adobegaramondproitalic => agaramondprobolditalic => 
> AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf
> adobegaramondpronormal => agaramondproregular => AGaramondPro-Regular.otf
> adobegaramondproregular => agaramondprobold => AGaramondPro-Bold.otf
> adobegaramondprosemibold => agaramondprosemibold => 
> AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf
> agaramondprobold => agaramondprobold => AGaramondPro-Bold.otf
> agaramondprobolditalic => agaramondprobolditalic => 
> AGaramondPro-BoldItalic.otf
> agaramondproitalic => agaramondproitalic => AGaramondPro-Italic.otf
> agaramondproregular => agaramondproregular => AGaramondPro-Regular.otf
> agaramondprosemibold => agaramondprosemibold => AGaramondPro-Semibold.otf
> agaramondprosemibolditalic => agaramondprosemibolditalic => 
> AGaramondPro-SemiboldItalic.otf

i cannot check it as i have no adobe garamond

> As you can see, agaramond... are mapped properly while adobegaramond... 
> are mapped wrong.

it all depends in what info is in the font ... familyname, weight etc 
and sometimes it's contradicting

> Changing \setmainfont[Adobe Garamond Pro] to \setmainfont[agaramondpro] 
> fixes the issue but, still, I'd prefer to use the former (as I've done 
> until now) since it's clearer.

how recent is your version of mtxrun / mtx-font / font database? it has 
been a bit in flux last weeks

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