Re: Granular synthetic emboldening possible ?

>> If I understand everything correctly he wants to achieve the
>> following: Let's assume that normal shape is value 0 and fully
>> emboldened is value 100.  If he is asking for a font with bold
>> value N, he wants that fontconfig returns a font that is a bit
>> bolder, for example a font corresponding to bold value N + 5.
>
> fontconfig only provides a boolean value for emboldening.

Uh, oh, bad wording on my side, sorry.  What he's actually after is
not emboldening per se but asking for *weight* N and wanting
fontconfig return a font with weight N+5 – ideally without
emboldening.


    Werner
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