On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:02 PM, Stephen Zilles <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? James
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