[XeTeX] Font variant selection in Fontspec/Mathspec options incomplete

[Diederick C. Niehorster]

Hi Pinfeng,

I'm no expert on this but two things to help this issue along:
- did you update to the very latest version of the packages?
- could you post the relevant package versions here, use \listfiles?

Best,
Dee

On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 16:39, Christian Schmidt <pinfeng at hotmail.de> wrote:
>
> Hello everyone,
> This is my first post on this mailing list and I felt the need to join, because I think I have discovered something to discuss.
> I've been using XeLaTeX for quite a while already to compile my TeX files to PDF. Now, while I was playing around with font selection features of the mathspec package I came across a likely bug or unimplemented feature in the fontspec/mathspec package:
> Selecting a font via the extension option/feature from Truetype or Opentype font files and, at the same time, specifying the corresponding font variants through the other options, fontspec/mathspec is not able to set the variant "Bold Italic". It simply seems to ignore the "BoldItalicFont" option that I have set.
>
> Here is my code snippet:
> *****\documentclass{article}
>
> \usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts}
> \usepackage{mathspec}
>
> \setmainfont[Extension={.ttf},UprightFont={*Rg},BoldFont={*Bd},ItalicFont={*It},BoldItalicFont={*BdIt}]{Aller_}
>
> \defaultfontfeatures{Mapping=tex-text}\usepackage{polyglossia}
>
> \begin{document}
>
> \textbf{\textit{This should be in bold italic x y z,} whereas this is only in bold.}
>
> \end{document}*****
>
> This also leads to the following error during compilation:*****LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape `EU1/Aller_(0)/bx/it' undefined
> (Font)              using `EU1/Aller_(0)/bx/n' instead on input line 13.
> *****
> However, if one replaces the respective line with the following
> \setmainfont[BoldFont={* Bold},ItalicFont={* Italic},BoldItalicFont={* Bold Italic}]{Aller}
>
> and thereby uses the feature to automatically select system fonts for instance, the "Bold Italic" variant is loaded correctly.
> Moreover, if one looks more closely at the log file from XeLaTeX it is interesting to note that in both cases (extension based and automatic) fontspec/mathspec even loads the available Small Caps variant in Regular, Italic and Bold Italic form - even though, this is not particularly set so in the options.
> *****\g_fontspec_family_Aller__int=\count164
>  fontspec Info: Defining font family for 'Aller_' with options [Extension={.ttf},
> UprightFont={*Rg},BoldFont={*Bd},ItalicFont={*It},BoldItalicFont={*BdIt}].
>
>  fontspec Info: Defining shape 'normal' with NFSS specification:
> (fontspec)  <->"[Aller_Rg.ttf]/ICU:script=latn;language=DFLT;"
>
>  fontspec Info: Defining shape 'small caps' with NFSS specification:
> (fontspec)  <->"[Aller_Rg.ttf]/ICU:script=latn;language=DFLT;+smcp;"
>
>  fontspec Info: Defining shape 'bold' with NFSS specification:
> (fontspec)  <->"[Aller_Bd.ttf]/ICU:script=latn;language=DFLT;"
>
>  fontspec Info: Defining shape 'bold small caps' with NFSS specification:
> (fontspec)  <->"[Aller_Bd.ttf]/ICU:script=latn;language=DFLT;+smcp;"
>
>  fontspec Info: Defining shape 'italic' with NFSS specification:
> (fontspec)  <->"[Aller_It.ttf]/ICU:script=latn;language=DFLT;"
>
>  fontspec Info: Defining shape 'italic small caps' with NFSS specification:
> (fontspec)  <->"[Aller_It.ttf]/ICU:script=latn;language=DFLT;+smcp;"
> *****
> I suppose, that this is indeed a bug or at least a forgotten feature - as it is already implemented partly but only for automatic font selection.Can anyone please confirm this and maybe give a solution to the problem?
> Thank you,Pinfeng
>
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