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Originally Posted by pilotbob
Sounds like perhaps it was a ligature issue rather than italics?
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It didn't look like the letters were intended to be joined to me... they were individual letters that do not normally get joined, and in fact were displayed properly in other formats.
As I described, it was as if the rendering engine handled each letter as if it was a playing card with the letter inscribed on it. Some italic letters (like capitals, "f"s with tails, etc) had wider "cards," but because spacing between wider cards would be noticeable and distracting, those wide cards would be pushed to overlap the card in front of it. This resulted in the white space of the letter on the right partially covering the letter to the left, just like looking at a fanned set of playing cards.