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by tayistay 1091 days ago
Admittedly I missed that assumption in cutting to the meat of the article. However, does WordPad or a spreadsheet really need to synthesize styling when the font doesn't have it?

I just loaded a font without an italic style into TextEdit on macOS, and it won't let me italicize it. It doesn't synthesize italics. I'm assuming the same goes for the rest of Apple's apps.