Post #2254028
2026-04-20 07:26 UTC
@hweimer@fediscience.org
@seanpm2001@techhub.social
I wanted to reply in a similar way: it depends on the software. "bold/italic or not" is usually decided by the choice of font (file). Given that, you need to associate the first Unicode codepoint with the one font and the second codepoint with the bold/italic font. The text shaping engine is usually capable of doing that. But the input syntax often does not allow that. #TeXLaTeX allows this. Markup languages usually do not enable it. I wonder about HTML 🤔
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@hweimer@fediscience.org 2026-04-20 07:32
@tajpulo@typo.social @seanpm2001@techhub.social It depends on the rendering engine whether this works in HTML. Neither Firefox nor Chromium are capable to do this.