[XeTeX] Reset bold, italic or small-caps to "normal"
Ross Moore
ross at ics.mq.edu.au
Tue Mar 31 01:55:12 CEST 2009
Hi Andy,
On 31/03/2009, at 10:16 AM, Andy Black wrote:
> I'm normal,
> {\textbf{I'm bold}},
> {\textit{I'm italic}},
> {\textit{\textbf{I'm bold and italic}}}, and
> {\textit{\textbf{Bold-italic {I'm an embedded normal} bold-italic}}}.
You need something like this:
{\textit{\textbf{Bold-italic {\upshape\mdseries I'm an embedded
normal} bold-italic}}}.
\upshape effectively cancels italics
\mdseries effectively cancels bold-face
or you could use \textup and \textmd .
But personally, I think you will find that using the
commands: \textbf \textit \textup \textmd , etc.
is actually not the best approach for the kind of application
that you have.
Try the following example:
{\textit{I'm italic \verb|\relax|}}
which might well be produced by your XML transformations.
It's actually invalid LaTeX, as the resulting console messages
will tell you.
However, this works fine:
{\itshape I'm italic \verb|\relax|}
The reason for the difference in behaviour relates to
the dual usage of {...}, for:
1. limiting the scope of typesetting styles;
2. capturing arguments to be passed to functions.
I'll not offer any deeper explanations here.
With nested objects, you want: e.g.,
{\itshape {\bfseries Bold-italic {\upshape\mdseries I'm an embedded
normal} bold-italic}}.
>
>
> What I'm wondering is this: is there is a way to tell XeLaTeX to use
> "normal" rather than bold or italic for the "I'm an embedded normal"
> portion? I see that there is \textnormal, but it uses the main
> document
> font and there is no guarantee that the main document font will be the
> correct one in the context.
Good point --- so use \mdseries to adjust the weight
and \upshape to specify the slant, without changing
the actual font family being used.
>
> Thanks for any help you can give on this,
>
> --Andy
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