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


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