Comment 5 for bug 165521

I was actually not mentioning that with emphasis on hotkeys,
but rather on aliases to styles that are similar: Oblique
and Italic are similar (of course, they are not similar to
real typographers, but they both share a slant
characteristic, and usually a font will not have both variants).

Normally, a wordprocessor will select either Italic or
Oblique intelligently, depending on which families are
available for the font, when Ctrl-I is pressed to italicize
the word -- there is not a separate key for Italic and Oblique.

The same of course goes for having a menu item (rather than
a keyboard shortcut) for Italic, Bold etc., as a quick way
of selecting one of the many possible variant family names
for "slanted text" in the current font.

Am I over-simplifying the problem?