2014-07-20, 04:19
Hey,
I was wondering if it was possible in XBMC to use proper italics in subtitles rather than slanted text when using <i> tags in .srt files.
I have placed Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic versions of Franklin Gothic in ~/.xbmc/media/fonts and selected that as the subtitle font, but XBMC seems to want to simply slant the normal font than display the proper italic version, which looks much nicer.
At the very least, it would be nice if XBMC would use the angle the font specifies rather than its own slant angle which is generally way more slanted than what the font is supposed to be viewed as.
See this album. The first image is how XBMC displays subtitles, the second is proper italics, and the third is slanted text with the proper angle. The second and third choices look much better and are much more readable than the first.
I was wondering if it was possible in XBMC to use proper italics in subtitles rather than slanted text when using <i> tags in .srt files.
I have placed Regular, Bold, Italic, and Bold-Italic versions of Franklin Gothic in ~/.xbmc/media/fonts and selected that as the subtitle font, but XBMC seems to want to simply slant the normal font than display the proper italic version, which looks much nicer.
At the very least, it would be nice if XBMC would use the angle the font specifies rather than its own slant angle which is generally way more slanted than what the font is supposed to be viewed as.
See this album. The first image is how XBMC displays subtitles, the second is proper italics, and the third is slanted text with the proper angle. The second and third choices look much better and are much more readable than the first.