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Originally Posted by JSWolf
You don't. You either find a font you like that has all 4 font families or you don't use it. I do suggest you remove your regular only fonts.
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You're right in terms of what the OP should do.
But be maximally pedantic, with tools such as FontForge it is *possible* to synthesise bold and italic versions (bold basically being done by overlaying a copy of the original strokes on the new ones, offset; italic by skewing them), but honestly unless you already know what you're doing it'll be pretty painful and the result is unlikely to look very good. The font rendering library the Kindle uses actually has native code to do this but it needs explicitly turning on and the Kindle doesn't do that, probably *because* it doesn't look very good.
... though the crudity of fonts synthesised this way might be balanced out by the relative rarity of bold and italic in most books. But, oh dear, not all books. I wish people who put people's
thoughts in italic didn't do it when that leads to the book having entire pages or chapters in italic, but alas such books do exist. From major publishers.