Yesterday I wrote as follows.
I suggest that a solution to the problem would be to encode a COMBINING ITALICIZER character, such that it only applies to the character that it immediately follows. So, for example, to make the word apricot become displayed in italics one would use seven COMBINING ITALICIZER characters, one after each letter of the word apricot.
I have now made a test font. I used a Private Use Area code point and a visible glyph for this test. It works well.
https://forum.high-logic.com/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=7831 Would it be a good idea to encode such a character into Unicode? William Overington Thursday 10 January 2019
