Old style numbers in lucida incompatible with bold italics?

Question

I'm using lucimatx to typeset things in Lucida. I've encountered a problem when I try to use old-style numbers: text that is intended to be bold italic is instead rendered as simply bold.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[romanfamily=bright-osf]{lucimatx}
\begin{document}

\textbf{\emph{bold italics doesn't work}}

\emph{\textbf{this doesn't work either}}

\end{document}

Things work as expected if I remove romanfamily=bright-osf from the MWE.

Answer 1

Bold italics do not work because there are no bold italics in the old-style figures version (aka hlhj). You can however load the the bold italics from the lining figure version (aka hlh). You have to do the \DeclareFontShape after \begin{document} because otherwise the T1+hlhj fontshape is not yet available as the fd file is only input after \begin{document}.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[romanfamily=bright-osf]{lucimatx}
\begin{document}
\DeclareFontFamily\encodingdefault{hlh}{}%
\DeclareLucidaFontShape\encodingdefault{hlh}{b}{it}{hlhbi8t}{}%
\DeclareFontShape\encodingdefault\rmdefault{b}{it}{<->ssub * hlh/b/it}{}%

\textbf{\emph{bold italics doesn't work}}

\emph{\textbf{this doesn't work either}}

\end{document}