Re: summary on shearing style for ruby

Hello Nat,

On 21/07/2020 09:49, Nat McCully wrote:
> I think when we made InDesign 斜体 we consciously decided ruby were not to be transformed because they are annotations of the text and harder to read I’d made 斜体 as well.
> Also, people sometimes think 斜体 is the same as shearing but it is not.

Can you explain a bit? Wikipedia (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/斜体) has 
a definition that seems equivalent to shearing, and links to 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type. Are you referring to slight 
optic corrections on top of the geometrical shearing, or to something else?

Regards,   Martin.

Received on Tuesday, 21 July 2020 08:09:48 UTC