Re: Specifying different generic font for different weights and styles

On 02/26/2014 08:31 PM, David Clunie wrote:
>
> I just purchased your xfc to use fo2docx and it is working well.
>
> However, I need to be able to specify the use of the "Arial Unicode MS"
> font for ordinary (non-bold, non-italic) text, and "Arial Bold",
> "Arial Italic", etc. for the variants, since "Arial Unicode MS"
> does not contain those (but I need it for various languages like
> Japanese).
>
> Specifying:
>
> "-genericFontFamilies=sans-serif=Arial Unicode MS"
>
> as an argument to fo2docx works just fine to make all "sans-serif"
> text use this font, but of course all the bold and italic information
> is lost.

No, not at all. Please replace "Arial Unicode MS" by Calibri and you'll 
see that it works as expected. Explanations below.



>
> I need something like:
>
> "-genericFontFamilies=sans-serif=Arial Unicode MS, sans-serif-bold=Arial
> Bold,
> sans-serif-italic=Arial Italic,sans-serif-bold-italic=Arial Bold Italic"

The specification you describe is not useful in the general case and as 
such is not implemented.

sans-serif=FOO means that the sans-serif *font* *family* (AKA 
*typeface*) to be used is FOO.

Therefore because FOO is a typeface, it is assumed that all the 
following *fonts* exist:

FOO
FOO Bold
FOO Oblique or FOO Italic.
FOO Bold Oblique or FOO Bold Italic.

This is always the case, except for special typefaces such as Symbol, 
Dingbats, etc.




>
> I had expected there would have been some sort of configuration file
> to feed to fo2docx to specify all the font substitution stuff (e.g.,
> like one uses with XEP), but could not find one.
>

There is no such configuration file. The documentation is up to date:

http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/_distrib/doc/user/index.html

please refer to it, as the support we provide our customers with is 
quite limited:

http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/support_policy.html



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