[XeTeX] Bold font

[Alastair M. Paterson]

Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Wed, 13 Aug 2008 14:26:12 +0545 schrieb Alastair M. Paterson:
>
>   
>> Hi!
>>
>> I'm trying to produce bold text when the font itself does not contain 
>> bold characters.
>>
>> The command I'm using is:
>>
>> \font\bold="Kalimati/B:script=deva;+abvs;+blws;+calt;mapping=Latin2DevanagariNums;embolden=25;letterspace=14" 
>> at 9pt
>>
>> The values for embolden and letterspace may be a little exagerated just 
>> to experiment.
>>
>> However, the letterspace parameter is making a difference, but the 
>> embolden isn't.
>>
>> I'm using a version of MikTeX that was dowloaded at the beginning of 
>> July but am not sure if there is a specific version number. When running 
>> the xetex command, it reports a version number of 3.141592-2.2-0.997.
>>     
>
> That's quite old for miktex. I have
> This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.999.2 (MiKTeX 2.7)
>
> I don't have your font. But this works fine here:
>
> \documentclass{article}
> \font\bold="LMRoman10-Regular:embolden=25;letterspace=30" at 9pt
> \begin{document}
> \bold test
> \end{document}
>
>   
Managed to download the latest version of MikTeX and the embolden 
function worked fine.

Thanks for your help.

Alastair