On Dec 17, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Jens Alfke j...@mooseyard.com wrote:
On Dec 17, 2013, at 10:44 AM, Steve Christensen puns...@mac.com wrote:
This seems odd to me since there's a perfectly fine Avenir Next Medium
Italic available. Is this an expected font choice for italic text given the
setup above
That seems wrong to me too.
I just experimented in TextEdit on OS X 10.9 — created some text in Avenir
Next Medium, then italicized one word. It came out Avenir Next Italic (not
Medium Italic), which is slightly wrong (too light) but not as wrong as what
you got on iOS.
My best guess is that the metadata in the fonts themselves is wrong: maybe
Medium Italic doesn’t have the same weight value as Medium.
I just specifically set up an em run to use Avenir Next Medium Italic and I
can't see any difference in font weight, so if it's something like that then
the algorithm that makes that determination is pickier about it than I.
and, more importantly, is there a way for me to end up with an attributed
string that's using the italic version of the base font short of manually
walking each of the attribute runs and correcting the font?
You could try creating some CSS to define a custom font/style mapping, then
insert that into the HTML…
I'm doing this same sort of thing in several locations within the app which
would mean providing CSS for each as a workaround. Not the most elegant
solution but for now I have ended up post-processing the attributed string,
replacing the font in italicized runs with an italicized version of the base
font. If someone else can provide further enlightenment into something I've
done wrong and how to fix it then I can rip out this bit but for now this will
do.
Thanks, Jens.
- Steve
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