From: Peter_Constable@sil.org
Date: Fri Jun 20 2003 - 21:31:21 EDT
Philippe Verdy wrote on 06/20/2003 03:29:17 PM:
> I think that Italic is to avoid for most Asian scripts, as readers are
not
> used to it. For Arabic it may cause problems because of the placement
> of diacritic points.
Thai type designers are extremely creative and not afraid of doing with
Thai type most anything that gets done with Latin type, as well as some
things that I have not seen done with Latin type. Bold and italic? No prob.
- Peter
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