including fonts

[cogmission (David Ray)]

I guess I was assuming the "ideal"/expected behavior applied? Sorry...

On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 10:14 AM, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org> wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> Which would assume that if I specify no keywords, then it should take the
> normal version. It does not. Whatever version is loaded last is used.
>
> Tom
>
>
>
> On 3-1-2016 17:09, cogmission (David Ray) wrote:
>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> I Believe in CSS, once you establish the family you can access the
>> sub-types via type keywords?
>> ...via
>>
>> -fx-font-weight: bold,bolder etc.
>> -fx-font-style: plain, italic
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>>
>> On Sun, Jan 3, 2016 at 8:52 AM, Tom Eugelink <tbee at tbee.org <mailto:
>> tbee at tbee.org>> wrote:
>>
>>     Addendum:
>>
>>     If I list the font families using Font.getFamilies() I get "Roboto
>> Medium" once, given that both TTF files are added using @font-face. But if
>> I examine Font.getFontNames() I get separate entries for "Roboto Medium"
>> and "Roboto Medium Italic". Closer examination of the font loading reveals
>> that indeed each font has its own distinct name and some fonts shared the
>> same family name. That makes sense.
>>
>>     The thing is that in CSS -as far as I can see- fonts can only
>> accessed through its family name, not its own name.
>>
>>     Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>     On 3-1-2016 11:21, Tom Eugelink wrote:
>>
>>         I'm currently including Google's Roboto font in JFXtras and
>> making it easily available to other users. I noticed that the font-family
>> attribute in font-face is ignored, and you have to use the name as it is
>> specified in the TTF file. I found
>> https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8094516 which says "/Please
>> note that all @font‑face descriptors are ignored except for the src
>> descriptor./" That pretty much explains what is going on.
>>
>>         Now, Roboto comes in different styles, condensed, bold, etc, but
>> also italic. However, italic is a separate TTF file, so you have a
>> Roboto-Medium.ttf and a Roboto-MediumItalic.ttf. The name of the font
>> inside these two TTF files is the same, so when I use "font-family: 'Roboto
>> Medium'" whatever ever font is defined last by font-face is used, and the
>> other is not accessible.
>>
>>         My question is: is the way Roboto does Italic, with the same font
>> name in the TTF file, a bug of Roboto, or is this common?
>>
>>         Tom
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> /With kind regards,/
>> David Ray
>> Java Solutions Architect
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>>
>
>


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