I should point out that the faux bold probably looks terrible because
of how thin this font is. I tried a different TTF file and it looked
OK. Either way, using two completely different fonts in the same
TextView would be another use-case.
On Sep 23, 3:42 pm, Richard Leggett <richard.legg...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I've done quite a lot of digging around the 1.6 SDK source code for
> this one. My aim is simply to have 2 StyleSpans within a TextView, one
> containing bold text, the other normal, both using a custom font.
>
> I'm setting the typeface to a custom font which was created in this
> fashion:
>
> // utility class
> public static Typeface getTypewriter(Context context) {
> if(typewriter == null)
> typewriter = Typeface.createFromAsset(context.getAssets(),
> "fonts/
> americantypewriter-medium.otf");
> return typewriter;}
>
> ... similar function for for getting bold face ...
>
> // usage
> textView.setTypeface(Typefaces.getTypewriter(mContext),
> Typeface.NORMAL);
> textView.setTypeface(Typefaces.getTypewriterBold(mContext),
> Typeface.BOLD);
> SpannableStringBuilder builder = new SpannableStringBuilder("Hello
> World");
> builder.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.BOLD), 0, 4,
> Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
> builder.setSpan(new StyleSpan(Typeface.NORMAL), 5, 9,
> Spannable.SPAN_EXCLUSIVE_EXCLUSIVE);
> textView.setText(builder);
>
> Based on the source, I can see that calling setTypeface() twice just
> overwrites the previous call, even when the style param is different.
> So in my case the entire TextView appears in bold. I'm kind of hoping
> there's a way to do it given you can use BOLD and NORMAL when using a
> built-in font.
>
> Does anyone have any workarounds?
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