[XeTeX] Fake italics for some characters only

[Zdenek Wagner]

Hello,

you should send a bug report to Steve White. FreeFont is huge and
Steve is unable to test everything, so he needs a response so that he
knows what to fix.

Zdeněk Wagner
http://ttsm.icpf.cas.cz/team/wagner.shtml
http://icebearsoft.euweb.cz

st 5. 12. 2018 v 19:50 odesílatel Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj at melroch.se> napsal:
>
> John, Zdenek, thanks for your most helpful hints.
>
> Below is what I came up with eventually, with MWE attached. The
> spacing adjustments are still subject to change. I have no idea
> why the spacing adjustments are required in roman! It turns out I
> need to fake bold as well, and I will probably need to redefine
> `\textbf` eventually, without breaking things I hope!
>
> John, your version worked once I had removed most whitespace,
> which leaked through to the output, but I ended up using more
> LaTeXy language to help myself keep things straight in my head
> when I added the bold(italic) alternatives.
>
> Ross, I believe I am subscribed with my bpj at melroch.se address. If
> there is a problem with this mail too I'm probably not, otherwise
> there may have been a glitch with using an alternate From address
> on my phone. I have my email forwarded around a lot these days.
> Hard to disentagle!
>
> /bpj
>
> ````
> \usepackage{ifthen}
> \usepackage{newunicodechar}
> \newfontface\fakeslantfont{FreeSerif}[FakeSlant=0.3]
> \newfontface\fakeboldfont{FreeSerif}[FakeBold=1.05]
> \newfontface\fakeboldslantfont{FreeSerif}[FakeBold=1.1,FakeSlant=0.3]
> \newcommand\objLang[1]{{\italictrue\textit{#1}}} % (double braces
> to keep things local).
> \newcommand\myStrong[1]{{\boldtrue\textbf{#1}}}
> \newif\ifitalic
> \newif\ifbold
> \newcommand\fakeBSChar[1]{% #1 = the char
>    \newunicodechar{#1}{{%
>      \ifthenelse{\boolean{italic}}{%
>        \ifthenelse{\boolean{bold}}{%
>          \fakeboldslantfont\hspace{-0.07em}#1\hspace{0.05em}}{%
>            \fakeslantfont\hspace{-0.05em}#1\hspace{0.05em}}}{%
>          \ifthenelse{\boolean{bold}}{%
>            \fakeboldfont\hspace{-0.05em}#1\hspace{0.02em}}{%
>              \hspace{-0.03em}#1}}}}
> }
> ````
>
>
>
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