Re: Problem with Arial Unicode MS font for BOLD/ITALICS in PDF

From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 18:15:14 EDT

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    At 14:44 -0700 2003-06-20, Kenneth Whistler wrote:

    > > I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers are not
    >> used to it.
    >
    >For body text, in documents or on web pages, I would agree.

    A wide range of oblique styles have been used in many Indian scripts
    for a very long time now. Generally they are used as display type, in
    headlines, for instance.

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    Michael Everson * * Everson Typography *  * http://www.evertype.com
    


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