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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 . 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.
Now, there are separate font family and font style menus. The user needs 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.
Now, 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.
Now, the font styling behavior has been changed with respect to key commands.
In large font families, while applying bold/italic styling through key command, it
will only searches for the bold/italic style from within the current sub font family.
If the sub 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. The key
command will no longer select a bold/italic font style outside the current sub
font family.