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bolded.
So the first thing to do is build the two subfamilies.
PetesFont-Bold has to link to PetesFont-BoldItalic for the
italic, and PetesFont-Italic has to link to PetesFont-
BoldItalic for the bold. This is easy to do.
To build subfamilies:
1. Open Style Merger and choose the bold font for the
Plain style, and the bolditalic font for the Italic style.
This makes a family with the bold font as the base font,
and the bolditalic font as the italic style. We don’t add any
more fonts here, because there isn’t a bolder version of
the bold, nor is there a boldbolditalic.
2. Simply choose “Save Family” and keep the
name “PetesFont-Bold.fam.”
This builds one of the subfamilies.
3. To build the other subfamily, choose “PetesFont-
Italic” as the Plain style, and then “PetesFont-
BoldItalic” as the Bold, and create a family
called “PetesFont-Italic.fam.”
This builds the other subfamily.
Now you are ready to build the main family, which links the
bold, italic, and bolditalic with the plain.
4. Run Style Merger on the “PetesFont” fonts as
described in the initial example with the Nova
family. This is the main family, so save the family
with the name you would like to see in the font
menu.
Important: In Step 4, make sure you use the “.bmap” files
rather than the “.fam” files—this is an extremely easy
mistake to make if you’re not careful.
The final step involves ResEdit. What you want to do is
merge the three families you just created and the bolditalic
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