Use a menu to choose the font-weight among all available

[nicolas]

Please, could you replace/complete the 'Bold' button by a menu listing all available weights for the font ? Most of fonts have far more than simply a normal and a bold weight, and the only way to correctly choose the font-weight today is to go editing the svg code.

Now that Inkscape have added lot of typographic options (spacing, rotating, line height and others), a real font weight selection option should be considered.

(toggling ligatures and other stylistic alternatives is also something that could be added, when available in OpenType fonts)

Thanks!

[nicolas (nclmar)]

Just seen the 'Text and font' window available in the 'Text' menu. Precise font-weight selection is available there. Was is here before? So, there is no need for a font-weight menu in text edit bar, but it could be fine. At least, a direct button link to the 'Text and font' dialog should be added in the toolbar when editing text.

All new text options like spacing and line height could be added to the window, too. And if it should be able to be attached in the right panel like all others options windows (colors, alignment, layers, ...).

[su_v (suv-lp)]

Originally requested feature (replace 'Bold' button on the controls bar of the text tool with dropdown list of available/supported weights) will be available in upcoming major release 0.91.

Extended support for OpenType features in Inkscape is tracked elsewhere (e.g. bug #627240, bug #1386778).