Now, since the other thread (between John, Peter & yourself) mentioned getter and setter methods WRT property management, and font-variant is a property --Would it be correct to assume that such getters and setters would still have to be added in relevant classes? (Apart from the actual "hack" Joerg & Chris are talking about elsewhere in this thread)
Having "getters" and "setters" for a property and an actual implementation getting the work done are different things... unless you men something else.
J.Pietschmann