On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 08:48, Alessandro Ceschini <[email protected]> wrote: > Why should fontspec try to load a crappy slanted shape in the first place?
Slanted =/= crappy. You have have optically adjusted obliques for sans serif typefaces. You can even have slanted serif fonts. Computer Modern had a set of them. It ultimately comes down to using them properly. But to actually answer your question, fontspec tries to load it because the command exists. It's designed to provide a working font setup, which means populating all the font commands. -Andy -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex
