[X4U] Substitue to Word: TextEdit, NeoOffice and AbiWord, about fonts

[Eddie Hargreaves]

The old Mac used to apply false bold, italics, etc. to fonts. Nowadays, in
Mac OS X, some programs still do this. But others will not let you apply
these false styles and will instead require that you change the font to an
official bold or italic variant of the font (these are sometimes called Demi
and Oblique)

For instance, there is not an italic version of Lucida Grande, so TextEdit
will not let you apply italics to any text using the Lucida Grande font.


On 8/24/05 2:38 PM, Germain M. <affaires at vif.com> wrote:

>> In my search for a Word X replacement, I also got AbiWord. So
>> NeoOffice and AbiWord could fill my needs. But there is something
>> very special about how they manage fonts and TextEdit too. Here is
>> the problem -is it one?- and I will gladly welcome your hints and
>> comments.
>> 
>> Ini those three programs, in some fonts like Geneva (by the way
>> what is Geneva CY), Tahoma and Courrier and so many others, bold is
>> not available, nor is italic. Give the command and nothing happens.
>> Word X (not Word from Office 2004) doesn't have this problem. Could
>> it be this video failure in some early iMac G5 like mine for which
>> Apple has an extended warranty plan? Font corruption? I'm really
>> amazed by this and I don,t know from where to start.