Re: [Devel] Re: Adding bold/italic style flags to Type1 fonts

[Keith Packard]

> Adobe has a tech note that describes the weights and styles used in Type 1
> fonts.  Unfortunately, the name of the TN escapes me right now.

Pointers to this would be helpful; I'll see what I can find as well.

> And some fonts on the Macintosh actually use an oblique font when the
> italic variant is selected (Courier for one, and the older version of
> Optima.  The newer version of Optima has a true italic variant).

I have three separate mechanisms for selecting font styles; booleans for
bold/italic, slant style + font weight values and string style names.  
Applications can simply set the bold/italic booleans, select among a range 
of slant styles (roman, italic, oblique) with a range of weights (light, 
medium, demi-bold, bold, black) or use complete string style selectors.

My goal here is to get the booleans working; it's probably the mechanism 
used by simple applications and is necessary to avoid using modified 
styles when applications request roman fonts.

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