Am 24.11.2013 um 18:12 schrieb H. Özoguz <h.oezo...@mmnetz.de>:

> >
> >
> > >> May be ConTeXt experts would have better suggestions, till then you
> > >> may want to look at the fake bold option in simplefonts -
> > >> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Simplefonts#Faking_italics_and_bold_fonts
> > >
> > > Thanks for your advice.
> > > Unfortunately I did not manish to work with this font by simplefonts. I 
> > > use the following simple setup:
> > >
> > >
> > > \definefont[arabic][file:bliblablup_0.ttf*arabic at 15pt]
> >
> > \definefontfeature[fakebold][extend=1.1]
> >
> > \definefont[arabic][file:<fontname>*arabic,fakebold at 15pt]
> >
> > > \starttext
> > > \arabic\setupalign[r2l] ٱللَّهُ لَآ إِلَـٰهَ إِلَّا هُوَ ٱلْحَىُّ 
> > > ٱلْقَيُّومُ
> > > \stoptext
> > >
> > > How can I get these "fake bolds" with this setup? Or is it absolutely 
> > > necessary to use Simplefont for these fake-bolds?
> >
> > The feature is unrelated to simplefonts.
> >
> > Wolfgang
> 
> Thanks Wolfgang, but that does not seem to work with this font. See 
> attachment, the font is wider, but not bold.

The extend feature stretches the glyphs to get narrow or wide font but it 
doesn’t embolden it.

The best solution is to get a font with a real bold style, money shouldn’t be a 
problem because fonts are cheap nowadays.

Wolfgang
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