Re: Font-bug?

From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2001 20:02:26 +0900 Marcus> I come to the conclusion that it is currently the best, to Marcus> avoid italic fonts completely. I also searched this list, Marcus> and it seems that there are more people discovering this Marcus> behaviour. Italic fonts are hard. The terminology is confusing, because most people think it means "slanted", but that's not correct (although most familiar italic fonts _are_ slanted). Really? italic adj 1: characterized by slanting characters; "italic characters" 2: of or relating to the Italic languages; "ancient Italic dialects" [syn: Italic] n 1: a style of handwriting with the letters slanting to the right 2: a branch of the Indo-European languages of which Latin is the chief representative [syn: Italic, Italic language] 3: a typeface with letters slanting upward to the right (From dictionary - btw, we should make dictionary an xemacs package) -jeff