Re: fonts funny

In message <c4c3856350.steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Steve Fryatt <news@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 30 May, Philip Draper wrote in message
<533c826350.Philip@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:


[snip]

There is now an unwelcome side-effect with OvationPro. Being too idle
to set up proper styles, I produce italics by selecting bits of text
and clicking on the 'I' in the menu bar at the bottom of the Ovation
window. Now I am getting italic small caps for Trinity instead of
ordinary italics.

This is a 'feature' of O-Pro, which has been acknowledged by David Pilling.
In practice, the Bold and Italic buttons are next to useless if you
have fonts
with a wide range of weights, as O-Pro can often guess the wrong weight.

I can achieve the ordinary sort by a slightly more roundabout route,
changing the font of the selected text using the list provided by Ovation.

And this is the work-around. You should always explicitly set fonts to the
exact weight required on O-Pro, and if you use a weight a lot, defining a
style can save you a lot of time.

This list definitely includes all the usual Trinity fonts as well as the
newly added small caps ones. !Draw also finds the full list, including both
Trinity.Medium.Italic and Trinity.Medium.Italic.SmallCaps, for example. My
machine has been switched off and on several times since I installed the
fonts, so this is not a question of a temporary problem solved by a reboot.

But when I look at my !Fonts application inside !Boot the fonts listed
under Trinity are *only* the small caps versions. The same applies to
Homerton and Corpus. Yet Ovation can find the others. It has no fonts
file of its own. So where are all the others kept and how to I get
them back into !Fonts?

They are in the ROM Fonts, and should not appear in !Boot.Resources.!Fonts.
The small-caps fonts on disc add to them.

Steve,

Thanks - both puzzles clearly explained, and clearly nothing to worry
about.

Philip.



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