Arabic Text Not Italicizing

a1b1

Hi,

Arabic text doesn't get italicized in LibreOffice when I use the extension to add the bibliography, and from zotero when I right-click on an item, and choose “Create Bibliography from item” and save as RTF.

This doesn’t happen when I have English text, and it doesn’t happen for other output modes in “Create Bibliography from item”.

I tried https://www.zotero.org/support/kb/italics_in_word_bibliographies, and it didn’t work.

Example RDF:
https://pastebin.com/16z69KHv

Software info:
zotero: 6.0.4
LibreOffice: 7.3.2.2 (x64) / LibreOffice Community

Thanks,

DWL-SDCA

Do you have the italic version of that font installed on your machine?

a1b1

Yes, I believe I have the italic version. I also tried different fonts just to be sure, and the problem still there.

bwiernik

My understanding is that italic is generally not used in Arabic typesetting, like with Chinese and Japanese typesetting. I know that the citation processor does not apply italics to Chinese or Japanese text; I don’t know about Arabic, but wouldn’t be surprised if it did the same there.

Most Arabic fonts don’t have an italic face included, so I wouldn’t be surprised if yours did not.

Either of those could produce this behavior. But in either case, I would say that this is the correct behavior, not a bug.

a1b1

>My understanding is that italic is generally not used in Arabic typesetting, like with Chinese and Japanese typesetting. I know that the citation processor does not apply italics to Chinese or Japanese text; I don’t know about Arabic, but wouldn’t be surprised if it did the same there.

Good to know that.

>Most Arabic fonts don’t have an italic face included, so I wouldn’t be surprised if yours did not.

I would not be surprised too. I don’t have much experience in fonts.

>Either of those could produce this behavior. But in either case, I would say that this is the correct behavior, not a bug.

Then, there is an inconsistent behavior in zotero, since I get italic Arabic text when I use “Create Bibliography from Item” and select Save as HTML, Copy to Clipboard, or Print.