Bug#1003634: texlive-latex-base: \fontseries broken: seems to be cumulative until {m} or so?

[Thorsten Glaser <tg@mirbsd.de>]

Norbert Preining dixit:

>Fontseries combines weight and width, and thus theoretically any
>combination of weight (ul,el,l,sl,m,sb,b,eb,ub) and width
>(uc,ec,c,sc,sx,x,ex,ux) are possible.
>
>So c = width, b = weight, can be combined.

Yes, they *can* be combined.

If I do \fontseries{bc}.

But not if I do \fontseries{b} even if the previous
paragraph used \fontseries{c}.

At least not according to both intuitive understanding
and any kind of documentation I could find.

If you find whatever official documentation says different,
please do share… I couldn’t find that.

bye,
//mirabilos
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