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