On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 6:52 PM, Valerie wrote:
How does Inkscape actually handle all that though?
I'm most likely not the best person to talk to, at least I'm not very good at technical details. It's Gail Carmichael who is :)
Here is how I see it.
You choose font family, say, DejaVu Sans and normal face
Since DejVu Sans also has Bold and ExtraLight faces, when you choose "bolder", Inkscape uses Bold face, if you then choose "lighter", it goes back to normal and then to ExtraLight face. WIth "italic" enabled it will only cycle between Oblique and Bold Oblique, since there is no ExtraLight Oblique right now.
It's not implemented right now, because we need help from Pango (http://www.pango.org/). And at latest Libre Graphics Meeting in May it was discussed with Behdad from Pango team.
Alexandre