This is correct. LibreOffice does fake italic, bold, and bold-italic if that
variant doesn't exist. LilyPond, however, makes no attempt at this and just
reverts to the closest one that is installed, which is usually the "regular"
variant.
- Abraham
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> On Feb 8, 2015, at 9:41 PM, Kevin Barry [via Lilypond]
> <ml-node+s1069038n171638...@n5.nabble.com> wrote:
>
>
>> On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 4:27 AM, Thomas Spuhler <[hidden email]> wrote:
>> Are you sure:
>> see attachment from libreoffice writer, normal and bold
>
> When there is no bold face present, a word processor might `fake' one by
> modifying the regular (roman) face. I don't know if that is what happened in
> your attachment, but the zip archive for the EB Garamond font linked to in
> your first message does not contain any files for a bold face. Normally a
> typeface has separate files for regular, bold, italic, bold-italic and so on,
> which LilyPond will attempt to use, but in this case it can't because that
> file presumably doesn't exist on your system.
>
> Elsewhere on the website the author does mention bold in the list of goals,
> but it does not appear in the specimen pdf which suggests it is not
> implemented yet.
>
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