<html> <head> <base href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/"> </head> <body> <div> <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Separate italic from oblique font family variants" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143013#c3">Comment # 3</a> on <a class="bz_bug_link bz_status_UNCONFIRMED " title="UNCONFIRMED - Separate italic from oblique font family variants" href="https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143013">bug 143013</a> from <a class="email" href="mailto:mikekaganski@hotmail.com" title="Mike Kaganski <mikekaganski@hotmail.com>"> Mike Kaganski</a> <pre>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.</pre> </div> <hr> You are receiving this mail because: <ul> <li>You are the assignee for the bug.</li> </ul> </body> </html>