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In response to my request for an italic Greek font for PostScript,
Brian Reid writes:

>I wasn't aware that there was such a thing as italic Greek.
>Isn't that kind of like asking for German French or for red green?

I was really asking for a font containing Greek characters
(particularly the lowercase characters) that would be appropriate for
printing mathematical equations.  It is standard practice in
mathematical typography in the U.S.A. to print lowercase characters in
equations using slanting type, and the Greek characters in the Adobe
Symbol font do not slant.  The combination of Times-Italic Latin
characters and Adobe Symbol Greek characters looks wrong -- and the
effect is not subtle.

Also Reid objects to my phrase "italic Greek".  Apparently the word
"italic" was once more specific, but according to the modern
dictionaries I consulted, it can be applied (by non-typographers) to
any forward slanting font.

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