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Built-in Mathematica Symbol

FontSlant

FontSlant
is an option for Style, Cell and related constructs which specifies how slanted characters in text should be.

On most computer systems, settings such as FontSlant->"Oblique" can also be used.

With the "Oblique" setting, each character typically has the same basic form as with Plain, but is slanted. With the Italic setting, the basic form is different.

Plain fonts:

Italic fonts:

Specify the font slant without using an option:

Font slant can be specified in style-related options:

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