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• italic — I. adjective Date: 1598 1. a. of or relating to a type style with characters that slant upward to the right (as in “these words are italic”) compare roman b. of or relating to a style of slanted cursive handwriting developed in the 15th and 16th… …   New Collegiate Dictionary

• Italic — I*tal ic, n.; pl. {Italics}. (Print.) An Italic letter, character, or type (see {Italic}, a., 2.); often in the plural; as, the Italics are the author s. Italic letters are used to distinguish words for emphasis, importance, antithesis, etc. Also …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• italic — [i tal′ik, ītal′ik] adj. [see ITALIC: so called because first used in an Italian edition of Virgil (1501)] designating or of a type in which the characters slant upward to the right, used variously, as to emphasize words, indicate foreign words,… …   English World dictionary

• Italic type — In typography, italic type /Unicode|ɪˈtælUnicode|ɪk/ or /aUnicode|ɪˈtælUnicode|ɪk/ refers to cursive typefaces based on a stylized form of calligraphic handwriting. The influence from calligraphy can be seen in their usual slight slanting to the… …   Wikipedia

• Italic script — This article is about the calligraphic and handwriting style. Also see Old Italic alphabet or Italic type .Italic script, also known as chancery cursive, is a semi cursive, slightly sloped style of handwriting and calligraphy that was developed… …   Wikipedia

• ancient Italic people — ▪ people Introduction       any of the peoples diverse in origin, language, traditions, stage of development, and territorial extension who inhabited pre Roman Italy, a region heavily influenced by neighbouring Greece (ancient Greek civilization) …   Universalium

• Unicode character property — Unicode assigns character properties to each code point.[1] These properties can be used to handle characters (code points) in processes, like in line breaking, script direction right to left or applying controls. Slightly inconsequently, some… …   Wikipedia

• Numeric character reference — A numeric character reference (NCR) is a common markup construct used in SGML and other SGML related markup languages such as HTML and XML. It consists of a short sequence of characters that, in turn, represent a single character from the… …   Wikipedia

• Precomposed character — A precomposed character (alternatively composite character or decomposable character) is a Unicode entity that can be defined as a combination of two or more other characters. A precomposed character may typically represent a letter with a… …   Wikipedia

• Combining character — In digital typography, combining characters are characters that are intended to modify other characters. The most common combining characters in the Latin script are the combining diacritical marks (including combining accents). Unicode also… …   Wikipedia

• Summary of Unicode character assignments — Legend The following table lists all of the blocks currently assigned characters as of April 2007 (Unicode 5.0).Fact|date=August 2008 Blocks are grouped according to their function. * The first column lists the name of the group.Working backwards …   Wikipedia