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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Commodore, please change the name
Keywords: font styles
Message-ID: <3053@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 30 Mar 88 07:14:01 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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One of the "standard" font effects is italic.

Great, but it's not italic its *oblique*.

Italic is a different type face; oblique is just a shear
applied to the character.

Harumpfh.




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