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Subject:Re: Emphasising text techniques? From:"Mark L. Levinson" <nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Sat, 13 Apr 2002 14:42:27 +0200
Geoff writes:
> I suspect that if you look closer, you'll see that your
> style guides say not to set _large chunks of text_ in italic
> rather than forbidding individual italicized words.
I'm not sure anyone mentioned the problem of screen
resolution. Italics that look fine on the page can look
lousy on screen-- even in a single word-- because they
depend so strongly on thin oblique lines. That goes
for Verdana at small sizes, even though it's one of the
fonts that Microsoft specifically recommends for use on
screen.
Mark L. Levinson
Herzlia, Israel
nosnivel -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il
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