Re: a bold question with a slant !!

On Wed, 7 Jan 2004, Suki Venkat wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Good to hear from Omega!
> I asked this question to Sebastian Rahtz some time back.
> In HTML you have:
>
> <b><i>Some thing</i></b> = <i><b>Some thing</b></i> =
> =<b><i><b>Some thing</b></i></b>.
>
> "<b>" & "<i>" act like commutative Idem-potent operators (<b>^2=<b>,
> <i>^2=<i>).
>
> Can Omega (LaTeX3++) behave this way?

I do not know what Omega has to do with this, but LaTeX2e does the same
thing:

\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\begin{document}
\textbf{\textit{Some thing}} = \textit{\textbf{Some thing}} =
=\textbf{\textit{\textbf{Some thing}}}
\end{document}

> Anyway this HTML behavior is incorrect (from what the typesetters tell me).

Pardon me, but I thing your typesetters are wrong...


> P.S.: I was told that they discovered WMD in Mars, is that true?

And what's WMD?
A.S.

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