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| author | Philipp Gesang <phg42.2a@gmail.com> | 2013-06-22 16:16:21 +0200 |
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| committer | Philipp Gesang <phg42.2a@gmail.com> | 2013-06-22 16:16:21 +0200 |
| commit | bd0a8039e89b9403b58ac5a9827a333276a6fbf6 (patch) | |
| tree | 8e8cc079a4b9b235df95344a30873de969f497fa /luaotfload-database.lua | |
| parent | 5fa488d55de0b89708e6028491fffa5f43ca279d (diff) | |
| download | luaotfload-bd0a8039e89b9403b58ac5a9827a333276a6fbf6.tar.gz | |
treat *medium* as a synonym for *bold*
treating *medium* as *regular* weight leads to incorrect matches with
Garamond Premier and likely other fonts as well. apparently, this also
happened with other typographical programs, e. g.
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2008/05/indesign_font_conflicts.html
note: the matching algorithm could be rewritten so as to resolve names
in two passes:
1. collect a list of candidates. if there is a literal match, pick that one
2. test style synonyms against the candidates according to a precedence list so that “regular” always precedes “medium”
to take this thought a bit further, the synonyms could also be ordered
by weight according to some assumptions. then we could pick the closest
weight present in the database. example: suppose *regular* is assigned a
weight index of 3, *medium* gets *4* (i. e. just a tad heavier), and
*bold* 7. then the synonym regular would be preferred for the request
*regular* if present, but medium would be chosen over bold if there is
no *regular* shape. this would probably be overkill, though.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/luaotfload-database.lua b/luaotfload-database.lua index 41adf88..4c45d21 100644 --- a/luaotfload-database.lua +++ b/luaotfload-database.lua @@ -326,12 +326,14 @@ end local style_synonyms = { set = { } } do + --- read this: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2008/05/indesign_font_conflicts.html + --- tl;dr: font style synonyms are unreliable. style_synonyms.list = { - regular = { "normal", "roman", - "plain", "book", - "medium", }, + regular = { "normal", "roman", + "plain", "book", }, bold = { "demi", "demibold", - "semibold", "boldregular",}, + "semibold", "boldregular", + "medium" }, italic = { "regularitalic", "normalitalic", "oblique", "slanted", }, bolditalic = { "boldoblique", "boldslanted", |