> And, what about adding more styles so that you could have Light, Medium, SemiBold, Bold, ExtraBold, Black etc. all defined in a single fontfamily? If that was available each font family would then define all the styles for one variant (SemiCondensed, ExtraCondensed, Condensed, each with 18 styles!)
You can add more alternatives (\it, \bf ...) to the font mechanism but
this requires additional settings (\definebodyfont ...) to get it
working. A limiting factor is that you have to stick to two-letter names
for each alternative
If you don't mind a question from a lapsed user: what is the reason for this restriction? It seems arbitrary but I have a feeling it's some vanilla-TeX thing which I have forgotten.
and the easier solution is to create additional
typefaces.
Also most likely sanity preserving!