From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Drew Adams" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: RE: Disable bold fonts? Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 08:27:07 -0700 Message-ID: <007201c924a3$54c81e00$c2b22382@us.oracle.com> References: <20081002024646.GA22924@metasyntax.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222961293 22249 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2008 15:28:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 15:28:13 +0000 (UTC) To: "'Taylor Venable'" , Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 17:29:12 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KlQ6v-0000bM-1x for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:29:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:41365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KlQ5r-0003sX-NR for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:27:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KlQ5J-0003bn-1Q for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:27:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KlQ5H-0003ZL-1V for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=42929 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KlQ5G-0003Z2-Uj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rgminet01.oracle.com ([148.87.113.118]:58399) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KlQ5G-0004cN-B9 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 11:27:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (rgmgw1.us.oracle.com [138.1.186.110]) by rgminet01.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.1.6) with ESMTP id m92FR5tG004291; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:27:05 -0600 Original-Received: from acsmt706.oracle.com (acsmt706.oracle.com [141.146.40.84]) by rgmgw1.us.oracle.com (Switch-3.2.4/Switch-3.2.4) with ESMTP id m92FR3WY003343; Thu, 2 Oct 2008 09:27:03 -0600 Original-Received: from dradamslap1 (/130.35.178.194) by default (Oracle Beehive Gateway v4.0) with ESMTP ; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:27:02 -0700 X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 11 In-Reply-To: <20081002024646.GA22924@metasyntax.net> Thread-Index: AckkOUSizNdJ/zbKSVyI+0SZpj2PSAAadhBg X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.3350 X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAQAAAAI= X-Whitelist: TRUE X-Whitelist: TRUE X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58294 Archived-At: > Is there a way to disable bold fonts entirely? Some X fonts (for > example, the smaller -misc-fixed ones) look ugly to me in bold, so I'm > looking for a way to disable bold in general rather than removing it > from every face I see that uses 'bold for the :weight attribute. This might not be the officially recommended way to do it, and it might not be the best way to do it, but you could simply customize face `bold' to just inherit from face `default' (with no other properties). IOW, redefine `bold' to be the same as `default'.