On Sep 2, 2010, at 12:41 PM, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: >> Yes, we are faced with the >> awfulness of 'italic' Arabic and Syriac > > And Chinese, too. I've seen that once :-(
It's unfortunately rather common in some publications these days, especially magazines and newspapers. -------------------------------------------------- Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex