https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94349
Yousuf (Jay) Philips <[email protected]> changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|UNCONFIRMED |NEW Ever confirmed|0 |1 --- Comment #2 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <[email protected]> --- (In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #1) > The usage of italics for whole paragraphs is proscribed by some > English-language style guides (writing this from memory, don’t ask me which > ones) and, given my academic experience, could even be forbidden if not for > a couple of foreign words. Also, this styling depends on the customs of each > culture and the set of standards that each language may have. On the other > hand, there are opinions of typographers that italics could be less readable > than upright when used extensibly rather than sporadically (for emphasizing > effect). I'm not a writer or an academic, so i dont really have knowledge from there, but from whatever reading i do online, i regularly see articles with paragraphs that are indented and italicize when it is a quote (e.g. http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/sep/03/switch-openoffice-libreoffice-or-microsoft-office, http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve-lunarg-vulkan&num=2 ). I also just had a look at MS Word and they have a paragraph style 'Quote' and it is italic, though they dont have a similar character style. > Given that the intent of this bug is achieving uniformity and > consistency among the built-in styles, wouldn’t be better if we remove the > italics from the Quotation style by default? That way, the user can add it > back if needed. If we removed italics from the Quotation character style, what would make it different from regular text by default? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug.
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