2022

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But, many of the font families had more than a single font style which mapped
to the same font face like Bold, SemiBold, Condensed Bold, Heavy, Black font
styles which map to Bold. In such cases, if the user clicked the bold button to
apply bold styling, there was no standard mechanism to identify which of the
bold face font styles should be selected. Likewise, on clicking on the Bold button
to remove bold styling, there was no standard mechanism to identify which of
the plain face font styles should be selected. This behavior created a lot of
confusion for the users.
It was not possible to add buttons for each of the font styles as the font families
could have numerous font styles (Example: The Kepler Std font family has 168
font styles). Multiple clicks on a single button to select the desired font style
was also not a feasible solution.
In order to address these issues and to have a more predictable user interface,
the Plain, Bold and Italic buttons have been removed from the user interface in
QuarkXPress 2019 - version 15.0.1. Now, the user has to change the font style
from the font style menu. In order to retain the legacy behavior for the users who
applied font style through key commands, the key commands to apply
bold/italics have been retained.
In previous versions of QuarkXPress, the key commands to apply bold and
italics would work even if the applied font family did not have a font style with
an intrinsic bold or italic font face. In such cases, faux bold or faux italics would
get applied on the text. The application of faux bold/italic is not considered
preferable for designing.
In QuarkXPress 2019, version 15.0.1, the font styling behavior has been
changed. On pressing the key command to apply bold/italic style, if the font
family has a font style corresponding to that font face, then the font style will be
selected, otherwise, the key command will be ignored.
If the key command to bold/italic style is being ignored/is not working, kindly
check if the applied font family has a font style corresponding to that font face
(bold/italic).
In previous versions of QuarkXPress, in case of small font families that only had
a Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, it was easy to use a key command to apply
bold/italics. In case of large font families which have many sub font families like
Light, Light Italic; Medium, Medium Italic; Condensed, Condensed Bold,
Condensed Italic, Condensed Bold Italic; Regular, Bold, Italic, Bold Italic, it was
not easy to use key command to apply bold/italic as the application was not
aware of which bold/italic style to choose. In addition to that, if a bold/italic
style was not available in a sub font family, the shortcut would select a
bold/italic style of another sub font family (from within the large font family).
Hence, if the Condensed Bold font style was not available, the shortcut would
select the Bold font style. This was not a correct behavior since applying a
bold/italic font style of a sub family would alter the current font-weight/width.