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commit a875360f42b1068a3010e5001903e9cde27bcd06
Author: G. Branden Robinson <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Sat Mar 29 22:34:03 2025 -0500
doc/groff.texi.in: Use terminological discipline.
...regarding "slanted", "oblique", and "italic" font shapes.
Also add these terms of typographic art to the concept index.
---
doc/groff.texi.in | 19 +++++++++++++++----
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/doc/groff.texi.in b/doc/groff.texi.in
index 229b937a0..5d14e4a13 100644
--- a/doc/groff.texi.in
+++ b/doc/groff.texi.in
@@ -10514,13 +10514,24 @@ one.
@cindex font, text
@cindex font, special
@cindex font, unstyled
+@cindex normal (font stroke weight)
+@cindex heavy (font stroke weight)
+@cindex upright (font shape)
+@cindex slanted (font shape)
+@cindex oblique (font shape)
In digital typography, a @dfn{font} is a collection of characters in a
specific typeface that a device can render as glyphs at a desired
size.@footnote{Terminals and some typesetters have fonts that render at
only one or two sizes. As examples, take the @code{groff} @code{lj4}
device's Lineprinter, and @code{lbp}'s Courier and Elite faces.} A
@code{roff} formatter can change typefaces at any point in the text.
-The basic faces are a set of @dfn{styles} combining upright and slanted
+The basic faces are a set of
+@dfn{styles}
+combining
+@slanted{upright}
+and
+@slanted{slanted}
+(italic or oblique)
shapes with normal and heavy stroke weights: @samp{R}, @samp{I},
@samp{B}, and @samp{BI}---these stand for @slanted{roman},
@slanted{italic}, @slanted{bold}, and @slanted{bold-italic}. For
@@ -12037,9 +12048,9 @@ without any intervening space.
@Defesc {\\@comma{}, , , }
@cindex left italic correction (@code{\,})
@cindex correction, left italic (@code{\,})
-@cindex correction between upright and oblique glyph (@code{\/}, @code{\,})
-@cindex roman glyph, correction before italic glyph (@code{\,})
-@cindex upright glyph, correction before oblique glyph (@code{\,})
+@cindex correction between upright and slanted glyph (@code{\/}, @code{\,})
+@cindex roman glyph, correction before slanted glyph (@code{\,})
+@cindex upright glyph, correction before slanted glyph (@code{\,})
Apply a @dfn{left italic correction}:@:
modify the spacing of the following glyph
so that the distance between it and the preceding glyph
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