Do we have any back inclined Italics Font? Just the opposite of the forward inclined Italics?
[Tex/LaTex] Back inclined Italics Font
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The Meiryo fonts work great and free too (for Windows users)! http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=f7d758d2-46ff-4c55-92f2-69ae834ac928&displaylang=en
It has italics for the latin characters to they will italics will probably show without having to switch to another font.
The font Inconsolata does not have an italic or slanted variant (June 2014).
Some TeX engines can fake a slanted font, based on a font transformation feature of the PDF format (therefore PDF mode only).
LuaTeX/XeTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmonofont[
AutoFakeSlant,
BoldItalicFeatures={FakeSlant},
]{Inconsolatazi4}
\begin{document}
\ttfamily
Regular
\textbf{Bold}
\textsl{Slanted}
\textit{Italics}
\textbf{\textsl{BoldSlanted}}
\textbf{\textit{BoldItalics}}
\end{document}
The slanted/italic versions are only faked. Also the italics correction is not set.
pdfTeX
A SlantFont operator can be used in the .map file.
The following Perl script zi4-sl.pl reads zi4.map (found via kpsewhich) and modifies the entries:
-slis added to the font (TFM) name,.167 SlantFontis added.
Perl script:
#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
$^W=1;
my $outfile = 'zi4-sl.map';
my $infile = `kpsewhich zi4.map`;
chomp $infile;
open(IN, '<', $infile) or die "!!! Error: Cannot open `zi4.map': $!";
open(OUT, '>', $outfile) or die "!!! Error: Cannot write `$outfile': $!";
while (<IN>) {
next if /^\s*$/;
s/^([^- ]+)-([^- ]+)/$1-$2-sl/ or die "!!! Error: Cannot parse TFM name!\n";
s/ " / " .167 SlantFont / or die "!!! Error: Cannot insert SlantFont!\n";
} continue {
print OUT;
}
close(IN);
close(OUT);
__END__
The following example:
- includes the map file via
\pdfmapfile, - defines the font shapes (would go into
.fdfiles normally).
\pdfmapfile{+zi4-sl.map}
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{inconsolata}
\makeatletter
\sbox0{\ttfamily x}% load .fd file
\expandafter\ifx\csname zifour@scaled\endcsname\relax
\let\zifour@scaled\@empty
\fi
\expandafter\ifx\csname zifour@opt\endcsname\relax
\def\zifour@opt{\z@}\def\zifour@altopt{\tw@}
\fi
\DeclareFontShape{\f@encoding}{zi4}{m}{sl}{%
<-> \zifour@scaled ot1-zi4r-sl-\zifour@opt}{}%
\DeclareFontShape{\f@encoding}{zi4}{m}{it}{%
<-> ssub * zi4/m/sl}{}
\DeclareFontShape{\f@encoding}{zi4}{b}{sl}{%
<-> \zifour@scaled ot1-zi4b-sl-\zifour@opt}{}
\DeclareFontShape{\f@encoding}{zi4}{bx}{sl}{%
<-> ssub * zi4/b/sl}{}
\DeclareFontShape{\f@encoding}{zi4}{b}{it}{%
<-> ssub * zi4/b/sl}{}
\DeclareFontShape{\f@encoding}{zi4}{bx}{it}{%
<-> ssub * zi4/b/sl}{}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\ttfamily
Regular
\textbf{Bold}
\textsl{Slanted}
\textit{Italics}
\textbf{\textsl{BoldSlanted}}
\textbf{\textit{BoldItalics}}
\end{document}
Finally the TFM files are needed. A poor man's solution is to use the TFM files for the original fonts. The example would need (bash syntax):
cp $(kpsewhich ot1-zi4r-0.tfm) ot1-zi4r-sl-0.tfm
cp $(kpsewhich ot1-zi4b-0.tfm) ot1-zi4b-sl-0.tfm
Again, the slanted and italic variants are only faked. Also the italics correction is missing, but it could be added by editing the .tfm files.
Best Answer
If you absolutely want to use something like this and you can use XeTeX or LuaTeX to compile your document, you can fake it for any font you like:
I'm not sure if you'd call the output attractive, exactly: