- From: Najib Tounsi <ntounsi@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 24 May 2014 11:24:17 +0100
- To: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com>
- CC: Behdad Esfahbod <behdad@behdad.org>, Matitiahu Allouche <matitiahu.allouche@gmail.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, "public-i18n-bidi@w3.org" <public-i18n-bidi@w3.org>, WWW International <www-international@w3.org>, "www-style@w3.org" <www-style@w3.org>
On 5/24/14 9:30 AM, James Clark wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Stephen Zilles <szilles@adobe.com > <mailto:szilles@adobe.com>> wrote: > > */Thus, in CSS/HTML, changing to Bold or Italics is not (strictly) > a font change./* > > > Surely the model is that you are selecting a font by specifying its > desired properties, specifically the family name, weight, width, slope > and size. > > */Furthermore, it would seem that doing joining across these > changes is more likely to work (given the Bold and Italic versions > of a font family are designed together) than changes between > arbitrary fonts. Thus it would seem to make sense to not do breaks > for changes between Bold and Italics versus changes in font > families./* > > > I would agree bold vs non-bold is more likely to work; I don't think > italic vs non-italic is (unless you used the OpenType 'ital' feature). > > Unrelated question just for my personal interest: how commonly are > italic fonts used in Arabic? To my experience, italic is not a common use in Arabic. Emphasis is traditionally done by changing style/design, for example different font or color, bold style, or simply quotation marks. Some times by drawing a line over the letters. Najib > > James
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