- From: John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com>
- Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2010 20:33:25 -0700
- To: Bram Pitoyo <brampitoyo@gmail.com>
- CC: "Tab Atkins Jr." <jackalmage@gmail.com>, Thomas Phinney <tphinney@cal.berkeley.edu>, Sergey Malkin <sergeym@microsoft.com>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, Sylvain Galineau <sylvaing@microsoft.com>, www-style@w3.org, www-font <www-font@w3.org>
Bram Pitoyo wrote: > On the other hand, it’s also important that users see some (any?) sort > of italic whenever an em tag is present. Unless otherwise specified in the CSS, e.g. for writing systems for which there is no 'italic' tradition or for which slanted text is not part of standard typography, in which case 'em' might be represented by weight variance, some other secondary style or even, as in traditional German fraktur typography, by a increase in letterspacing. The presumption that em = italic is quite eurocentric. JH
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