- From: Ambrose LI <ambrose.li@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2013 11:18:05 -0500
- To: Stewart Baker <bakersc@mail.wou.edu>
- Cc: Koji Ishii <kojiishi@gluesoft.co.jp>, John Daggett <jdaggett@mozilla.com>, fantasai <fantasai.lists@inkedblade.net>, 董福興 Bobby Tung <bobbytung@wanderer.tw>, W3C Style <www-style@w3.org>
2013/11/15 Stewart Baker <bakersc@mail.wou.edu>: > Cursive, according to the OED, means "written with a running hand," i.e. > without lifting the writing implement between strokes. > > "Written with a running hand, so that the characters are rapidly formed > without raising the pen, and in consequence have their angles rounded, and > separate strokes joined, and at length become slanted." > > Like John, I'm not sure matters of a single line definition of the word > "cursive" are of earth-shattering import. However, it is the case that > cursive is (technically) more a matter of style than formality, so changing > to "flowing" or something similar might make sense. （Although not italic, > as they aren't really synonyms. Cursive is often italic, but italic is not > always cursive. Since there is already an italic in HTML, it might be best > to drop any comparison to that.) > Indeed cursive is not always italic (I mentioned this), but true italics—as opposed to obliques—are always cursive. I don’t usually side with Wikipedia editing policy in these matters, but in terms of typographic knowledge the OED is not a credible source. -- cheers, -ambrose <http://gniw.ca>
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