Re: generic fonts and italic vs oblique

Tim Bagot wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 25 Feb 2000, Chris Lilley wrote:
> 
> > Or we could drop cursive and fantasy, as being basically useless....
> 
> I would certainly agree that fantasy seems rather useless, mainly because
> it is so vague. 

yes

> cursive, OTOH, is likely, IIUC, to be the usual style for
> Arabic, and various Indic scripts (and assorted others that don't spring
> to mind quite so quickly).

But that comes from their being written in a particular script, not from
one of five styling choices. Arabic is a connected script, but not
necessarily brushlike. It doesn't sharemuch with the assorted "cursive"
fonts used for the Latin alphabet.

--
Chris

Received on Sunday, 27 February 2000 20:08:43 UTC