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Re: fontnames for Bitstream Univers



>On Thu, 26 Nov 1998 09:53:16 -0500 (EST), Karl Berry wrote:
>
>>    This does, however, not work with fontinst, because fontinst
>>    will not accept both "c" (black) and "x" (extra black).  As a
>>    workaround I suggest to rename ExtraBlack to "bunu" (ultra
>>    black), despite its internal name.
>>
>>Better to fix fontinst than munge the name, I think.
>
>I cannot imagine how to "fix" fontinst for any arbitrary
>"term of boldness" that might occur in the internal FontName.
>I'd rather map it to the series know in LaTeX (b, eb, ub).

The thing about this is that LaTeX only `knows' two weights: \bfseries
selects bx, \mdseries selects m, and that's it AFAIK.  Everything else is
an optional and relatively arbitrary extra.

Rowland.