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From: Andreas Schneider <aksdb@gmx.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: SimpleFonts: no italic and bold
Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 15:03:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4E9C27A3.9060802@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5DF7DFD2-8D96-4CED-892B-A51265D14BD7@googlemail.com>

On 17.10.2011 14:46, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Ah, that is what I was looking for. Bold works now! Thank you! :-)
>>
>> There's still one problem though: italic doesn't work.
>
> Is there a file for the italic style?
>
>> I guess the font doesn't provide that feature by itself, but can it be emulated/enabled?
>
> ConTeXt can fake the slanted and bold style but they are not the same as a real italic and bold font.
>

AFAICS there is no italic style. Only regular, bold and semi-bold. What 
is needed to get simplefonts to fake italic (and slanted for that matter)?

-- 
Best Regards,
Andreas Schneider
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-17 13:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-17 11:38 Andreas Schneider
2011-10-17 12:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-17 12:36   ` Andreas Schneider
2011-10-17 12:46     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-17 13:03       ` Andreas Schneider [this message]
2011-10-17 14:49         ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-10-18  6:41           ` Andreas Schneider

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