Comment 2 for bug 438307

I've tried with sans-serif and serif, but sans-serif doesn't work on Windows. It uses a sans font, but italic and bold are not applied...
I'm now going to try with sans, instead of sans-serif. It's not a generic font family, as defined in http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-CSS2-20080411/fonts.html#generic-font-families, but it seems to work.

The SVG specs say it's possible to use a list of font families, and it would be the best fix for this bug, but it doesn't work with Inkscape (probably not implemented yet).