On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 10:56 AM, John Hudson <tiro@tiro.com> wrote: > On 03/02/13 10:57 PM, Ambrose LI wrote: > > I might be wrong but I believe this is language dependent. AFAIK in >> Hebrew the slant would be to the right (i.e., same as LTR scripts); >> but Arabic and Persian slant to the opposite direction, to the left. >> > > There are variable practices for Hebrew, and the Masterfont foundry in > Israel even ships some font families with two sets of 'italics', one > leaning right and one leaning left. Personally, I've generally favoured a > lean to the right, because it produces a more visually compact style with > stronger forms (when leaning to the left, the letters dalet and resh become > attenuated), and because of the precedence of some mediaeval manuscript > styles that lean to the right. It sounds like it may be useful to define a font descriptor in @font-family that allows the user to provide guidance to the UA about which direction slant should apply when synthesizing oblique.Received on Monday, 4 February 2013 18:04:28 UTC
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