How odd. Last Friday I ran into the same thing, and came to that conclusion deductively, because I tried using bold style with a font that I know didn't have that typeface.
Bob S > On Feb 17, 2018, at 08:51 , J. Landman Gay via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > LC no longer manipulates text directly to produce styles, it now uses the > equivalent font. This happens with all text styles including bold, italic, > etc. If the font family includes a styled version it is used, otherwise there > is no change. > > I can't remember if the swap happens automatically in all cases. Recently I > needed a bold font and it didn't work, I had to install the bold version of > the font and use that instead. I think that was because the bold version was > its own font family. > > -- > Jacqueline Landman Gay | jac...@hyperactivesw.com > HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode