Re: italic font size
On 14 Apr 1999 17:43:32 EDT, Raymond Toy said:
The standard bitmapped X11 font for adobe-courier calls its italic
font "oblique" instead of "italic". From a non-typography view, I
think they're just different names for the same thing, but I may be
wrong.
From a typography view, they are *not* the same thing.
Given a "normal" alignment font, an "oblique' font is formed by
distorting the bounding box of the glyph and its contents from a
rectangle to a parallelagram. An italic font is one redesigned
to put a tilted glyph inside the same rectangular bounding box.
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Valdis Kletnieks
Computer Systems Senior Engineer
Virginia Tech
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