If bold or italic formatting is lost in PrintDraft

Question

For some reason, in some fonts, the bold or italic formatting does not appear in PrintDraft.
For instance, I have a test project using the Andika font. In PrintDraft all the text that should have been bold (section heads for example) was not bold, and the text that should have been italic was not. But if I changed the font to Times New Roman in the PrintDraft dialog, the bold and italic text appeared.

I found I could make bold and italic appear in Andika if I modified the PrintDraft-mod.tex file (inside the PrintDraft folder) to add these definitions.

\def\bold{“Andika:embolden=2”}
\def\italic{“Andika:slant=0.2”}
\def\bolditalic{“Andika:embolden=2;slant=0.2”}

I suppose this is related to the fact that in the Windows control panel, Times New Roman is a font family, if I open it I see Times New Roman Regular, Times New Roman Bold, Times New Roman Italic and Times New Roman Bold Italic. Andika is just one font, not a family.

For non-Roman scripts you may need to add a script definition to your command. This is how I enabled bold & italic for a project using the Annapurna SIL font:

\def\bold{“Annapurna SIL:script=deva;embolden=2”}
\def\italic{“Annapurna SIL:script=deva;slant=0.2”}
\def\bolditalic{“Annapurna SIL:script=deva;embolden=2;slant=0.2”}

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Answer 1

Andika New Basic has bold and italic faces. But it doesn’t have as wide a character coverage as full Andika. NRSI recently created this chart to help you see if your language is covered.

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Answer 2

Be aware that the choice of digit style (under Advanced, “Choice of digit style for \c and \v”) is also controlled by these lines, via a mapping parameter. In other words, if you choose Devanagari digits in PrintDraft and then put these lines in your PrintDraft-mods.tex file, any regular digits will be Devanagari (since you haven’t included a font def line for regular), but if, say, your chapter numbers are bold they will come out as regular ASCII digits. To preserve the digit mapping you have to add it to your font def line, eg:

\def\bold{“Annapurna SIL:script=deva;embolden=2;mapping=devanagaridigits”}

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