On 10/7/07, Luca Capello <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > the latest update closed bug #440142 [1] and this brought to my > attention the fact that some DejaVu variants are called Italic, while > others Oblique: > [...] > While I'm not a font expert, I guess that italic and oblique refers to > the same font variant. This can generates confusion.
Although this can be confusing, "italic" and "oblique" are actually different variants. Oblique is a slanted variant of the regular font, i.e. each character has a similar shape but slanted. Italic has different shapes, i.e. different glyphs (all or just a few like 'a', 'g'), different serifs, different width or weight. > Could one name can be chosen once for all, pleasse? That would be confusing to font experts. To be proper we should rename DejaVu Sans Oblique to DejaVu Sans Slanted as there is actually a difference between slanted and oblique variants, and it is currently slanted. Slanted is just Regular geometrically slanted. Cheers, Denis Moyogo Jacquerye -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
