[XeTeX] fontspec: mapping=tex-text for the lmodern fonts

[Andrew Moschou]

On 22/02/2008, Will Robertson <wspr81 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> fontspec doesn't support both the idea of separate italic and slanted
> shapes because I think it's stupid :) Just because a font family might
> have them doesn't mean you'd want to use them at the same time.


I think the only merit would be in a mathematical text where variables are
italic and, to avoid confusion, emphasised texts are oblique. Knuth has done
this; it's probably the reason he designed Computer Modern this way. I would
personally see whether I can emphasise using some other method.

Andrew
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