W3C CSS2 Cascading Style Sheets, level 2 - instructional media + ...

Authors are encouraged to offer a generic font family as a last alternative,
for improved robustness.
For example:
Font test
BODY { font-family: "new century schoolbook", serif }
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Example(s):
The richer selector syntax of CSS2 may be used to create language-sensitive
typography. For example, some Chinese and Japanese characters are unified to
have the same Unicode codepoint, although the abstract glyphs are not the same
in the two languages.
*:lang(ja-jp) { font: 900 14pt/16pt "Heisei Mincho W9", serif }
*:lang(zh-tw) { font: 800 14pt/16.5pt "Li Sung", serif }
This selects any element that has the given language - Japanese or Traditional
Chinese - and requests the appropriate font.
15.2.3 Font styling: the ’font-style’, ’font-variant’,
’font-weight’ and ’font-stretch’ properties
’font-style’
Value: normal | italic | oblique | inherit
Initial: normal
Applies to: all elements
Inherited: yes
Percentages: N/A
Media: visual
The ’font-style’ property requests normal (sometimes referred to as "roman" or
"upright"), italic, and oblique faces within a font family. Values have the following
meanings:
normal
Specifies a font that is classified as ’normal’ in the UA’s font database.
oblique
Specifies a font that is classified as ’oblique’ in the UA’s font database. Fonts
with Oblique, Slanted, or Incline in their names will typically be labeled
’oblique’ in the font database. A font that is labeled ’oblique’ in the UA’s font
database may actually have been generated by electronically slanting a
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