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0 pointsrbanffy7y ago0 comments

I believe it's only supported if the font has a defined italic version, and it's unable to generate italic from a regular face.

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Which is a major no-no anyway, typographically speaking.

rbanffyOP7y ago

We are talking about terminals. Italics used to be drawn by skewing the pixel clock.

Sure but we have bitmap displays now. There’s no reason our tools can’t take advantage and adapt to the times.

rbanffyOP7y ago

True, but generating italics when they are not explicitly defined is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

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Which is a major no-no anyway, typographically speaking.

rbanffyOP7y ago

We are talking about terminals. Italics used to be drawn by skewing the pixel clock.

Sure but we have bitmap displays now. There’s no reason our tools can’t take advantage and adapt to the times.

rbanffyOP7y ago

True, but generating italics when they are not explicitly defined is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.

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