It's not that you would load a similar font, under the windows regime, the OS loads a similar font if it can't find an exact match! Then it cheerfully goes on about your business as if what it did were perfectly reasonable. GRRRR! Sigh!!

Typically the difference between italic and oblique is that an italic font is designed to slant, while oblique is just knocked up the side of it's head and made to tilt. Use italic over oblique is best from the typophile point of view.

--hsm

"Never try to teach a pig to sing...it wastes your time and it annoys the pig."

In reply to Re^3: Win32 Module to return font filename from full font name/weight/slant ? by hsmyers
in thread Win32 Module to return font filename from full font name/weight/slant ? by renodino

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.