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fontstyles

does NOT yield a font style, it yields the font's slope class.

richmond62 wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 21, 2025 8:01 pm

fontstyles

does NOT yield a font style, it yields the font's slope class.

To be pedantic (as no much is happening any more on this forum), two comments:

1. Why is this a post
2. Incorrect

Slope class refers to a font's degree of slant, which is typically categorised as normal (upright), italic, or oblique
fontStyles (<fontName>, <fontSize>) returns the list of available styles for a font. This include things like "bold" which has nothing to do with slant.

The Dictionary wrote: The fontStyles function returns a list of available styles, one per line.
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The font styles are returned in a return delimited list, such as the following one:

plain
bold
italic
bold-italic

Richmond,

The answer to your problem is in the other thread, Ruritanian letters have unicode values. You can sort away.

What is a "slope class"? FontStyles are things like Plain" and "Bold".

Craig

dunbarx wrote: ↑

Fri Nov 21, 2025 9:18 pm

What is a "slope class"? FontStyles are things like Plain" and "Bold".

Google is your friend.
But if you can't be bothered see my previous response.