8.4. Other Font Properties
8.4.1. The font-style Property
The font-style property determines whether the element is rendered in normal (Roman), italic, or oblique font style. For all practical purposes, italic and oblique are identical.
8.4.2. The font-variant Property
In its current incarnation, the font-variant property has only one effect: it determines whether text should be displayed in small-caps format. In an ideal world, if the current font has a small-caps variant defined, the browser would use that font. Unfortunately, no current browser is smart enough to do that. Rather, current browsers render lowercase letters as capital letters with a smaller size than that used for the main font.
Figure 8-4 demonstrates the font-variant ...
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