Font headache

[Slobodan Despot <despot@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Unlike other DTP programs, FM uses 4 categories to describe a font : 
Family/Var/Weight/Angle.

Practically, it means an incredible mess in naming and using fonts 
that look identically structured in other programs.

Some homogenous font families are split into variants: the 4 
components of a family (i.e. Plain, Bold, Italic, BoldItalic) are 
considered as different fonts. Others do not recognize particular 
Weight/Angle combinations. Others are merged across their separate 
suitcases as classified by ATM...  And, best of all, fonts with 
non-English descriptions (i.e. Gras instead of Bold for French 
fonts), are all flattened to Plain. A MSWord file written with such 
an unfortunate font becomes plain text when imported into FrameMaker.

I know this is a general issue, and it may be platform-related. 
Anyway, I'd be glad if someone could recommend a reliable method, 
charter, book or homepage to help me understand how fonts should be 
organized and named to work coherently with FrameMaker.

(MacOS 9, FM 6.0, ATM DeLuxe, ATR off - uncompatible. Some fonts 
custom-generated by Fontographer).

Slobodan Despot
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