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Italic variant (and possibly bold) are not being detected by Windows applications #373

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javlaks opened this issue Aug 5, 2020 · 8 comments · Fixed by #376
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Italic variant (and possibly bold) are not being detected by Windows applications #373

javlaks opened this issue Aug 5, 2020 · 8 comments · Fixed by #376

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@javlaks
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javlaks commented Aug 5, 2020

Problem description
The italic variant is not being detected by windows applications. When I or the editor make italic, the regular font is being transformed to Italic instead of take Italic font variant

Expected behavior
Windows applications need to use the Italic variant instead of create italic from regular font

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Here you can see from word document (right), and how should be showed (left)
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Same case using Dank Mono, this is displaying correctly using the italic font variant
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Not only in word, this happend in most of windows applications, here two examples from Notepad++

Rec Mono Duotone
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Dank Mono
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To Reproduce
Just make italic text on any windows application text editor or programming editor

Environment
OS: Windows 10 v1909
Font: 1.055
Notepad++: 7.8.4
Microsoft Word: 365 Version (16.0)

Additional information
This issue is not present in Visual Studio Code 1.47.3
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@iansan5653
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iansan5653 commented Aug 6, 2020

I'm seeing this in Intellij on Windows. Code Linear works fine, but not Code Duotone.

@arrowtype
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Hmm, that is odd. Thanks for the report, @javlaks!

The fix isn’t immediately clear to me, though I’ll try to keep an eye out for a solution.

In the near term, I recommend using the normal Recursive Mono fonts in apps that are for design and general word processing. These seem to work well for me in Windows. Here’s Wordpad:

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@iansan5653
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@arrowtype While the first two screenshots were from Word, we're also seeing this when using code fonts in the Notepad++ and IntelliJ code editors.

@arrowtype
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arrowtype commented Aug 6, 2020

@javlaks okay, I may have solved this. Would you be willing to confirm with one of the families at https://github.com/arrowtype/recursive/tree/7beedaff5200a5c8000711bc92dfbeb418af94c3/fonts/rec_mono-for-code?

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I found that I needed to set a few values for Bold, Italic, & Bold Italic fonts:

  1. In the OS/2 table, Panose bLetterform must be set to 11, for oblique fonts
  2. In the OS/2 table, the fsSelection needed to be set to italic/bold/bolditalic
  3. In the head table, the macStyle needed to be set italic/bold/bolditalic (probably not relavent to Windows, but related to the overall issue)

I think this might solve the issues in most Windows apps, and maybe even in IntelliJ. 🤞

@iansan5653 if you would be willing to try one of the updated families in IntelliJ, that would also be super helpful!

@javlaks
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javlaks commented Aug 6, 2020

Hey @arrowtype you're super fast!

It is working now :P

Wordpad
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Notepad++
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Netbeans
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We only have pending a fix for the ligatures ( #369 )

Thank you for the hark work and the font ;)

@arrowtype
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Yeeeeah thanks for helping to check that so quickly, @javlaks! 💪

I’ll wait to see whether @iansan5653 can check out things in IntelliJ before closing this / possibly moving that to a new issue.

@iansan5653
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Sorry for the delay - I tried in IntelliJ and it's working! Thanks.

@arrowtype
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Awesome, thanks so much for taking a look, @iansan5653!

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