Comment 47 for bug 1048600

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Mark Shuttleworth (sabdfl) wrote : Re: [Bug 1048600] Re: [FFe] Restore "Ubuntu Medium" weights in Ubuntu's binary .deb

On 08/10/12 17:53, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> Qt lists Light as a choice under font style for the Ubuntu font (along
> with light, regular, medium, bold, italic, italic bold) rather than as a
> separate font. So it doesn't let you do "bold of Ubuntu Light".

OK. That's the right story for apps which support multiple weights of
the same face, like Scribus, and is great. We were hoping that simpler
apps, word processors etc, would present them as Ubuntu / Ubuntu Light,
two faces with the usual bold / italic / bold-italic options.

Mark