Re: LyricText #'font-series = #'bold-narrow ?!

[Alexander Kobel]

On 2010-10-28 02:30, Ralph Palmer wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 9:27 AM, Valentin Villenave
> <address@hidden <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Alexander,
>
>     CC-ing to the bug list just in case.
>
>     On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 2:39 PM, Alexander Kobel <address@hidden
>     <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>     >  why does LyricText #'font-series default to #'bold-narrow?
> [...]
> Greetings -
>
> I'm directing this primarily to bug-list folks. This was submitted over
> a week ago, and I see no action. Did I miss something? [...]

Hi, Ralph,

thanks for your attention, but it's fixed (by commit 
d0c8a258b168c41a3d40f714c55f8fccadfe7d8c).  Werner and I forgot to send 
a note to the bug- list, sorry.

> I don't
> understand fonts or typefaces or their parameters well, so I don't
> understand whether there is a bug or not.

Since we don't offer a bold-narrow style in Century Schoolbook (and most 
other fonts don't as well), the fallback was the regular font anyway. 
So it's been an "unexpected expected (desired) behaviour".

> > [1] This observation makes me wonder: is it possible to define different
> > font basenames for several series of, say, the serif default font?  Some of
> > my favourite fonts come in two flavours for normal spacing and condensed
> > spacing, and my workaround - if I need both - is to define the condensed one
> > as the monospace font to have easy access on it.  Which works, but is a
> > complete abuse of the monospace entry.  The Real Thing would be to say
> > "GarmdITC Bk BT" is my default serif font, with default proportions,
> > "GarmdITC BkCn BT" is the corresponding condensed font. Some typefaces even
> > need the same for bold, ultra-bold or something like this (e.g. Arial vs.
> > Arial Black).  And when 'font-series is switched, of course the appropriate
> > basename should be chosen.

This might count as enhancement request.  Postponed, if you ask me.


Cheers,
Alexander