ASSv5 Font Families

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Font Families

Format:

Family: FamilyName,PSName,Weight,Bold,Italic

Example:

Family: Helvetica,Helvetica,400,-,-
Family: Helvetica,Helvetica-Oblique,400,-,+
Family: Helvetica,Helvetica-Light,300,-,-
Family: Helvetica,Helvetica-LightOblique,300,-,+
Family: Helvetica,Helvetica-Bold,700,+,-
Family: Helvetica,Helvetica-BoldOblique,700,+,+

{\fn(Helvetica)}Helvetica; {\b+}Helvetica-Bold {\i+}Helvetica-BoldOblique {\b(300)}Helvetica-LightOblique {\b(500)}Helvetica-Oblique (fauxed from 400 to 500)

If there's no Family, then \fn is a PostScript name. If there's no italic variant in the family for a weight (or there's no family at all), it's fauxed. If there's no weight in the family matching the requested one (or there's no family at all), it's fauxed from the next-lowest one. If {\b+} is used and there's no "bold" explicitly set in the family, it's the same as \b(700).

This means it's as easy as possible to use the right variant (assuming the authoring software generates the Family lines correctly), while fauxing is still easy (but will only happen if it actually needs to).

So in the Styles section you just use the Family name, correct? BTW in the end this is kinda similar to CSS @font-face with the only difference that styles (bold, italic, etc) are defined on the family item directly.