Re: When to use markup: (Was:Introducing the idea of a "ROMAN VARIANT SELECTOR" (was: Re: Proposing Fraktur))

From: Curtis Clark (jcclark@mockfont.com)
Date: Sun Feb 03 2002 - 14:18:58 EST


At 10:25 AM 2/3/02, John Hudson wrote:
>Um, for italics one has to use a different font also. Many programs
>provide an italics button that activates the italic member of a font
>family, but this still involves selecting a separate font.

And it would be simple to set up a font family so that Fraktur would be the
"normal" state, and the italic button on the word processor would select a
Roman member of the family (if you still needed sloped italics, those could
be assigned to the "bold italic" slot).

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