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Open Sans, Roboto and Roboto Slab NAME table issues in WinWord

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A user wrote to me privately that Open Sans, Roboto and Roboto Slab all have NAME table issues in Windows Word.

Open Sans when installed looks like this to Word:

![unnamed-1](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/42766020-5a89c592-88e7-11e8-8661-0fb772e1e918.jpg)

So far so good.

However, the SemiBold Italic style does not render, instead the SemiBold is auto-slanted (eg the 'a' is not single story)

![image007](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/42766030-5ce027d2-88e7-11e8-8053-5c692879a846.jpg)

Similarly, Roboto Slab has 4 styles (Regular + Bold, then Thin and then Light) but only two appear in the Word picker list:

![unnamed](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/42766022-5aa02d96-88e7-11e8-8f6f-ed381a16be9c.jpg)

So when a document is made with them in Google Docs and exported as docx, it appears to fall back to Roboto:

![image005](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/261579/42766026-5bf8075e-88e7-11e8-991c-6b2643792acd.jpg)

I am very keen to see that Font Bakery is checking this stuff and telling people exactly what to do to fix it, and then we ensure everything in the API is fixed. :)

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