'italic', not 'italics'

I just set my font to

"Courier New italic"  8

successfully.

Henry Rich

Yuvaraj Athur Raghuvir wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> When reading through 'The Design of APL'  I came across this:
> " Italics were initially favored because of their common use for denoting
> variables in mathematics, but were finally chosen primarily because they
> distinguished the letter *O* from the digit 0 and letters like *L*,
> and *T*from the graphic symbols (paste does not work for the symbols)"
> 
> So, I thought that was a cool idea and wanted to set the  fonts on my J to
> italics.
> 
> But this does not work!! Any clues?
> 
> 'Bold' works but not 'italics'.
> 
> I am running J602a on Windows XP 32.
> 
> Regards,
> Yuva
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