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This is a follow-up question of this answer, which provides a FakeSlant-based method for providing bold italics for Iconsolata using XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX (with fontspec).

The original method works, but when specifying Extension = .otf, or using iconsolata as the font name (because there is inconsolata.fontspec in the inconsolata-zi4 package), the fake slant for bold italics fails.

Consider the following MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

% this works
% \setmonofont{Inconsolatazi4}[
%   AutoFakeSlant,
%   BoldItalicFeatures={FakeSlant},
% ]


% this does not work
\setmonofont[
  AutoFakeSlant,
  BoldItalicFeatures={FakeSlant},
]{inconsolata}


% this does not work either
% \setmonofont[
%   UprightFont = -Regular,
%   BoldFont = -Bold,
%   AutoFakeSlant,
%   BoldItalicFeatures={FakeSlant},
%   Extension=.otf
% ]{Inconsolatazi4}


\begin{document}
\ttfamily
Regular
\textbf{Bold}
\textsl{Slanted}
\textit{Italics}
\textbf{\textsl{BoldSlanted}}
\textbf{\textit{BoldItalics}}
\end{document}

Not Working:

not working

Working:

working

Teddy van Jerry
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1 Answers1

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Inconsolatea has no Italics so it fallbacks to slanted:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}

\setmonofont[
   UprightFont = -Regular,
   BoldFont = -Bold,
   SlantedFont = -Regular,
   SlantedFeatures = {FakeSlant=0.2},
   BoldSlantedFont = -Bold,
   BoldSlantedFeatures = {FakeSlant=0.2,RawFeature={embolden=2}},
   Extension=.otf
 ]{Inconsolatazi4}


\begin{document}
    \ttfamily
    Regular
    \textbf{Bold}
    \textsl{Slanted}
    \textit{Italics}
    \textbf{\textsl{BoldSlanted}}
    \textbf{\textit{BoldItalics}}
\end{document}

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user187802
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  • Thank you for your prompt answer! Indeed, using BoldSlantedFeatures in addition to BoldItalicFeatures will address the issue, and also stop the warning of fallback. – Teddy van Jerry Feb 02 '24 at 15:12