[GNC] Preferences for latest version

[David T.]

Adrien,

> On Oct 21, 2018, at 11:08 PM, Adrien Monteleone <adrien.monteleone at lusfiber.net> wrote:
> 
> * Now for the font name issue...
> 
> I haven’t found a consistent rule here but these are the two that work for me:
> 
> Open FontBook, find your desired font, and click the (i) icon at the top left to view the font’s information panel.
> 
> 1) Use the ‘Full Name’ of the font, enclosing it in double quotes in your rule if the name has spaces. Note my above example. Spell it EXACTLY, also not that my above ‘UltraLight’ is not ‘Ultra Light’.

I don’t profess to understand the significance of the various entries in Font Book, but my experiments show that the entry to use is actually the Family name. For most fonts, the Full Name and the Family name are the same, but for those fonts with different Full Name and Family names, the Family works, but the Full Name does not. 

[On my own machine, in some kind of cosmic kharma thing, there seems to be an exception for the one font I tried to use to test changing the font (“Big Caslon”). It just doesn’t work, which is a mystery I may never solve.]

> 
> 2) Use the Postscript name, which has no spaces.
> 
> #2 *might* work. I’ve never had #1 fail, but I offered #2 just if some odd font needs it.

My experiments showed that the Postscript name never worked.

> Good luck.


Thanks for the assistance, I’ve had an entertaining time trying out various fonts and sizes. One’s books look ever so much more impressive when you render them in Edwardian Script ITC!

Cheers,
David