- From: Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com>
- Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2000 21:05:00 +0100
- To: www-style@w3.org
On Wed, 16 Feb 2000 11:42:54 -0800, Matthew Brealey <thelawnet@yahoo.com> wrote: [...] >This severely limits the utility of font-style: oblique because most >people don't have oblique fonts, They don't need to, there really is no such thing in practice. We can have "oblique cuts" or an _oblique_presentation_ of just any font (even italic type designs in fact) if the rendering system is up to do that. That is the real meaning of 'oblique' i.e. a slanted presentation of an otherwise standard "upright" or "italic" type design. >and for these people it would be useful to state that >an italic one should be used instead; e.g., by the >(backwards-incompatible) font-style: oblique, italic. As I said, it's a piece of cake for any computerized renderer to present any type design available on the system in an oblique way, no specific fonts needs to be installed to do that. A true presentation of an italic type design requires an italic font defined from that design, to be installed on the system though. -- Jan Roland Eriksson <jrexon@newsguy.com> <URL:http://member.newsguy.com/%7Ejrexon/>
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