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doubleshuffle · 06-30-2013, 02:50 AM

(Sorry if someone has come up with this in one of the many bug threads already - haven't read them all...)

Recently got an Aura, and while I'm generally very happy indeed, the bug that text in italics is rendered bold in some fonts really gets on my nerves.

It got on my nerves so much that I felt I needed to fix this - a task far beyond my capabilities unless it was very easy to do, implying that the bug is more stupid than a sane person would imagine.

It is. I renamed the italic font -Bold.ttf and the bold one -Italic.ttf. Now italics are rendered correctly, but bold is rendered in italics now too (which is far less annoying for me than bold instead of italics...)

I'll play with it a bit more, but listen, Kobo: This really should be easy to fix.

06-30-2013, 02:50 AM	#1
doubleshuffle Unicycle Daredevil Posts: 13,944 Karma: 185432100 Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Planet of the Pudding Brains Device: Aura HD (R.I.P. After six years the USB socket died.) tolino shine 3	Simple (Almost-)Fix for the Stupid Italic/Bold Bug (Sorry if someone has come up with this in one of the many bug threads already - haven't read them all...) Recently got an Aura, and while I'm generally very happy indeed, the bug that text in italics is rendered bold in some fonts really gets on my nerves. It got on my nerves so much that I felt I needed to fix this - a task far beyond my capabilities unless it was very easy to do, implying that the bug is more stupid than a sane person would imagine. It is. I renamed the italic font -Bold.ttf and the bold one -Italic.ttf. Now italics are rendered correctly, but bold is rendered in italics now too (which is far less annoying for me than bold instead of italics...) I'll play with it a bit more, but listen, Kobo: This really should be easy to fix. Last edited by doubleshuffle; 06-30-2013 at 03:07 AM. Reason: Curbed my enthusiasm in light of further checking...