No. Courier-Bold-Italic would be the Typeface, Courier would be the TypefaceFamily. So my Font object that gets used by FOP would be Courier-Bold-Italic at 12 points. It has a parent Typeface, which represents the Courier-Bold "font" file and its contents. This typeface has a parent TypefaceFamily, which represents the Courier family, and knows how to find bold, italic, small-caps, etc. Typefaces which are related.
So your font is the same as an java.awt.Font?
So, during FO Tree construction, when a small-caps font is requested by the source document, FOP tries to find the small-caps variant for the Typeface (by looking at the parent TypefaceFamily). If it exists, it assigns that. If not, it uses the regular variant with an emulation on the point size, and assigns that. Everything downstream just knows to use that Font, doesn't need to know why. It sounds like we agree on all of this.
No problem.
J.Pietschmann
