Am 17.10.2011 um 14:36 schrieb Andreas Schneider:

> On 17.10.2011 14:00, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>> Important for simplefonts are the entries in the first colums, you can use
>> 
>>   \setmainfont[telegrotesk][regularfont=* nor,boldfont=* fett]
>> 
>> to enable the font.
> 
> Ah, that is what I was looking for. Bold works now! Thank you! :-)
> 
> There's still one problem though: italic doesn't work.

Is there a file for the italic style?

> I guess the font doesn't provide that feature by itself, but can it be 
> emulated/enabled?

ConTeXt can fake the slanted and bold style but they are not the same as a real 
italic and bold font.

>>> >  The --info output for normal ...
>>> >  mtx-fonts       | family  : telegrotesknor
>>> >
>>> >  ... and bold:
>>> >  mtx-fonts       | family  : telegroteskfet
>>> >
>>> >  What would be the preferred way to setup the font in this scenario?
>> As you can see from this two entries the fonts internal names are a mess,
>> both should be “family: telegrotesk” for a proper names font but this isn’t
>> the case here and the reason why automatic detection fails.
> 
> AFAIK the font was designed by URW who I would expect to do better than that 
> ... but well, it's an old font and maybe it was done in a hurry :D

No, also new fonts can be a mess and there are too many information and names 
in a font which show sometimes very different values.

Wolfgang
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