https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94349
Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> changed:
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--- Comment #2 from Yousuf (Jay) Philips <philipz85@hotmail.com> ---
(In reply to Adolfo Jayme from comment #1)
The usage of italics for whole paragraphs is proscribed by some
English-language style guides (writing this from memory, don’t ask me which
ones) and, given my academic experience, could even be forbidden if not for
a couple of foreign words. Also, this styling depends on the customs of each
culture and the set of standards that each language may have. On the other
hand, there are opinions of typographers that italics could be less readable
than upright when used extensibly rather than sporadically (for emphasizing
effect).
I'm not a writer or an academic, so i dont really have knowledge from there,
but from whatever reading i do online, i regularly see articles with paragraphs
that are indented and italicize when it is a quote (e.g.
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/askjack/2015/sep/03/switch-openoffice-libreoffice-or-microsoft-office,
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=valve-lunarg-vulkan&num=2 ).
I also just had a look at MS Word and they have a paragraph style 'Quote' and
it is italic, though they dont have a similar character style.
Given that the intent of this bug is achieving uniformity and
consistency among the built-in styles, wouldn’t be better if we remove the
italics from the Quotation style by default? That way, the user can add it
back if needed.
If we removed italics from the Quotation character style, what would make it
different from regular text by default?
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