On Aug 14, 2008, at 10:48 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
the order is just one factor. what actually happens is that there is a compensation for buggy font names (as happens often in afm files) so in practice one entry might become three entries; taco noticed that one of the fallbacks create this way will then obscure a following one
in your case it might be order on disk (although the current mechanisms do some sorting) but on our machines more likely is that a bugged afm font obscures later otf's (with similar names)
anyhow, we'll cook up a patch
Hans
Very funny - I was following this thread with interest, yet had never encountered this problem. This morning, I played around with the minimals on my linux eeepc (had always used TeXLive, but saving some space seemed like a good idea) and got exactly the same problem: instead of bold, I get bold italic. If I typeset the same file with my TeXLive installation, I get proper bold. So Vasile is on to something here... Thomas