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Re: [Devel] Adding bold/italic style flags to Type1 fonts
From: |
Werner LEMBERG |
Subject: |
Re: [Devel] Adding bold/italic style flags to Type1 fonts |
Date: |
Sun, 19 Nov 2000 13:06:06 +0100 (CET) |
> I'm a bit concerned about the bold flag. Instead of a nice numeric
> or boolean value, Type1 fonts have a weight name; I've added two
> obvious bold names, but I'm sure there are "bold" Type1 fonts that
> use a different weight name.
Here are the names as collected in the `fontname' package for TeX (not
ordered):
>From $TEXMF/fontname/weight.map:
Thin = Hairline
Bold
Black
Demi
Heavy = Heavyface
ExtraLight
Book
Light
Medium
Poster
Regular Roman
Semibold
Ultra = UltraBlack
ExtraBold = ExtraBlack
Maybe this helps.
Werner