On Tue, 11 Jan 2000, Franko Luin wrote:
> In the trade "italic" and "oblique" have special meanings. "Italic" means a
> special cutting of the typeface, often with different widths and shapes.
> "Oblique" means slanted appearance of the normal one. Adobe's fonts, e.g.,
> are called Garamond and Garamond-Italic, but Helvetica and
> Helvetica-Oblique.
>
> Not every language has two different words for that. In Swedish, as in
> German, both are "kursiv". There is a possibility to use "kursiv" for italic
> and "kursiverad" for oblique, but it is not in common use.
>
No, that's not entirely accurate. To the best of my knowledge (and
confirmed by a dictionary on typographic terms) the correct Swedish
usage is that 'kursiv' (and 'kursiverad' for that matter) means italic
while oblique is called 'lutande'. We have the same problem with
word-processing software ignoring this fine but crucial distinction
however.
/Paul Reinerfelt
Student of Computer Science in Lund, Sweden
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