On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 07:54:07AM -0700, Victor Mote wrote: > 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.
These days everybody uses scalable fonts, but in principle it is possible that Courier-Bold-Italic at 10 points is a different font than Courier-Bold-Italic at 20 points, with a different metric file and different glyphs. The canonical example being of course TeX, with e.g. cmr5, cmr6 etc. With kind regards, Simon Pepping -- Simon Pepping email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] home page: http://www.leverkruid.nl
