[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 143013] Separate italic from oblique font family variants

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143013

--- Comment #3 from Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski at hotmail.com> ---
I disagree.

As described on the cited Wikipedia page:

> Oblique and italic type are technical terms to distinguish between the two
> ways of creating slanted font styles
> ...
> Few typefaces have both oblique and italic designs, as this is generally a
> fundamental design choice about how the font should look. A font designer
> normally decides to design their font with one or the other.

The two - italic vs oblique - are just internal technical method of creating a
slanted variant of the font, which will be the only one for a given font. The
"Few typefaces have both oblique and italic designs" is something esoteric, and
it would be interesting to find real samples; but even if they are found, their
existence does not justify increased complexity of UI for some crazy font
design case.

The "italic" term is well-established to not only relate to the strict
technical method, but also to more generic meaning of slanted font variant -
and LibreOffice uses this well-established, widely-accepted meaning - and let
it be this way.

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