Re: Wrong characters for Serbian cyrillic

[Sander Vesik <Sander Vesik Sun COM>]

Rob wrote:
> On Tuesday 21 October 2003 20:15, Sander Vesik wrote:
>
> > Lack of italic Vera Serif is unfortunate - esp as there is
> > mono italic and bold italic which i can't imagine getting used
> > all that often
>
>
> You can get most of the way to an oblique sans serif font 
> programmatically (pfaedit will even do it for you) but an 
> italicized serif font is really a different face altogether.  I 
> can totally understand why we don't have one.
>
> For what it's worth, last I checked, Tahoma (one of the most 
> widely used sans serif fonts out there courtesy of MS) doesn't 
> even come with an oblique version, so it's not exactly a problem 
> unique to Linux.

you always get the oblique variant for free from the rendering system on 
windows, so there is no need for a set of bits calling themselves 
'Tahoma Oblique' to be written to disk. The benefit would be marginal.

> Rob

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