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Re: What are 'true italics'?
I don't at all insist that an italic needs to be cursive, although that's certainly a) valid and b) historically the source of italic. The point to me is that italic is a secondary style — not second…4 -
Re: What are 'true italics'?
Tom, In Type 1 days, some fonts that used the PostScript slant operator for italics. I remember when Linotype sent me the Type 1 Helvetica fonts as source materials for Linotype Helvetica (later Helv…4 -
Re: Could we hack into designing a Persian/Arabic braille font?
But you can also do it with text search/replace macro, and that will be more robust than a font substitution, and will produce Unicode encoded Braille characters with correct directionality built in.2 -
Re: Weapon of choice
I've not tried that particular vertical mouse, but did use this Evoluent one for a while. I also tried the joystick-like 3M ergonomic mouse, but preferred the Evoluent one. Vertical mice are great fo…2 -
Re: Antarctican Cyrillic
In this case, yes, although I think it depends on the idiomatic style of the typeface, rather than a fixed rule. There are, of course, styles in which the left stroke is diagonal, or in which the who…2
