From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: August Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can't get italic face! Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:35:19 +0100 Message-ID: <1107963320.5359.13.camel@c83-250-201-122.bredband.comhem.se> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1107963802 11665 80.91.229.2 (9 Feb 2005 15:43:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2005 15:43:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Feb 09 16:43:21 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cytz6-0006QI-OF for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 16:42:33 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1CyuDf-00087J-2r for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:57:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cyu91-0006MA-3t for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:52:47 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Cyu8r-0006He-5n for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:52:40 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Cyu8q-0006Ez-EK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:52:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [81.228.10.108] (helo=av9-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Cytrw-0000uP-11 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2005 10:35:08 -0500 Original-Received: by av9-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id A345237E55; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:35:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net [81.228.10.181]) by av9-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B68A37E45 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:35:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from c83-250-201-122.bredband.comhem.se (c83-250-201-122.bredband.comhem.se [83.250.201.122]) by smtp4-1-sn4.m-sp.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7755B37E43 for ; Wed, 9 Feb 2005 16:35:06 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:23987 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:23987 On ons, 2005-02-09 at 11:07 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo wrote: > > > I want to get the italic face, but can't: > > I select a word, then do `M-g i' and nothing happens. > > Instead, `M-g b' for bold face and `M-g u' for underline work fine. > > Any suggestion? > > I have CVS Emacs 21.3.50. > > > August wrote: > > > Does the selected font define an italic shape? > > > I don't think so. When I try to customize the font > I select the item 'slant' and, under this, the option > 'oblique', but the example shown by Emacs does not > show any oblique shape, but the default shape instead. > Is it possible, and how?, to obtain an italic shape? > After all, the 'bold' and 'underline' face work fine. What I mean is that if you are using a raster font that don't have an italic shape (no such glyphs defined) then you're out of luck. Some fonts, e.g. Proggy Clean, don't even have a bold shape. With vector fonts (e.g. True Type) the application can sometimes change the shape of the a font (with no italic/bold shape defined) by applying a transform. Nevertheless, the result will only look good if the font has a real italic shape defined. -- August