Greg Vilardi wrote:
> Thank you for the quick response. The main reason I didn't use 
> composite mode was that I didn't know it existed. I'll research it once 
> I get my copy of chapter 7 in (hopefully) a few minutes.

OK.

> P.S. Is this behavior caused by something goofy in the PDF specs or is 
> there an underlying architectural issue in iText? I'll read the code 
> once my feet are out of the fire, so that I can understand what's going 
> on better.

A long time ago, something called "font propagation" was introduced
in class Phrase to deal with concatenation of chunks of text with
different font styles in HTML. For instance: <i>some italic text
changes into <b>bolditalic</b> when tags are nested.</i>
This wasn't an ideal solution.

> Hmmm. The list doesn't set a reply-to back to the list. I'll try to 
> follow up publicly later. My curiosity isn't necessarily appropriate 
> for the list, anyway.

I copy this to the mailing list. Don't worry about the appropriateness
of questions regarding possible bugs on the list: the iText developers
are always very happy with bug reports and suggestions for making iText
a better library on the list. That doesn't mean all code is accepted
(for instance: if the solution isn't generic enough).
-- 
This answer is provided by 1T3XT BVBA

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