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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: font boldness in KWord/KOffice format [Re: Suggested changes to KWord's file format]
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-05-15 14:43:36
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On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 03:32:12PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> On Tuesday 14 May 2002 21:52, Thomas Zander wrote:
> |  On Sun, May 12, 2002 at 11:52:03PM +0400, Vadim Plessky wrote:
> |  > On Friday 05 April 2002 21:35, David Faure wrote:
> |  > |  Except that 0 and 1 can be extended to 2 and 3 etc. later, if new
> |  > | options come in, whereas this isn't possible for true/false.
> |  > |  Even bold or italic could become more than false/true, if we go for
> |  > | multiple boldness levels one day (X fonts seem to support that), and
> |  > | for multiple underlining ( double underline to be done soon). OK, some
> |  > | things might be definitely booleans, but see below ;)
> |  >
> |  > As about "font boldness":
> |  > I have Futura Gothic font with following *boldness*:
> |  >  Book - similar to Regular/Normal, but can be different
> |  >  Medium
> |  >  Bold
> |  >  Heavy
> |  >
> |  > Besides, I have couple of fonts with "Light" weight.
> |  > (all fonts are availble for testing upon request)
> |  > So, Bold=0/1 is not enough even nowdays!
> |  >
> |  > BTW: I was wondering why KWord doesn't highlight text in one of fonts
> |  > listed above, it always was giving only Regular or Bold. Now it seems we
> |  > know the reason - file format limitation...
> |
> |  It took you 5 weeks to respond to this message; the least you could do is
> |  check the DTD.
> |
> |  Below format you can have the weight tag:
> |  WEIGHT
> |          Weight of a font is it's Boldness. Look at the QFont weight
> | description for precise numbers. Use normal=50, bold=75.
> 
> Thomas, I suggest that this feature will be implented in KWord as well, on top 
> of adding it to DTD?
> 
> Look at my message above. Before sending this mail, I checked *font boldness* 
> in KWord1.2beta1, and *it doesn't work* in this version of KWord.
> Normal/Bold can be selected 9and respected when printed), but 
> Demi/Light/Medium/Heavy/ExtraHeavy have no effect after selection in font 
> dialog.
> Those fonts are not respected neither on screen nor on printer.

That is also what the email you replied to was suggesting.

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Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
                                                 We are what we pretend to be

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