On: Kitty – a fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emu...

[rbanffy]

I believe it's only supported if the font has a defined italic version, and it's unable to generate italic from a regular face.

[tambourine_man → rbanffy]

Which is a major no-no anyway, typographically speaking.

[rbanffy → tambourine_man]

We are talking about terminals. Italics used to be drawn by skewing the pixel clock.

[tambourine_man → rbanffy]

Sure but we have bitmap displays now. There’s no reason our tools can’t take advantage and adapt to the times.

[rbanffy → tambourine_man]

True, but generating italics when they are not explicitly defined is a perfectly reasonable thing to do.