From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taylor Venable Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Disable bold fonts? Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 07:11:53 -0400 Message-ID: <20081002111153.GB22924@metasyntax.net> References: <20081002024646.GA22924@metasyntax.net> <91978C1C-C8BB-4353-B782-94B7923656C5@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222945933 31379 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2008 11:12:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 11:12:13 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Peter Dyballa Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 13:13:11 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 1KlM7K-0006za-Fh for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 13:13:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40116 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KlM6G-0006uY-U4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:12:04 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KlM5z-0006uT-MD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:11:47 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KlM5x-0006uH-7D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:11:46 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39493 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KlM5w-0006uE-Uz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.perfora.net ([74.208.4.195]:60738) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KlM5w-00032C-N7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:11:44 -0400 Original-Received: from metasyntax.net (pool-71-188-161-219.aubnin.fios.verizon.net [71.188.161.219]) by mrelay.perfora.net (node=mrus1) with ESMTP (Nemesis) id 0MKpCa-1KlM5s2mg4-0005IX; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 07:11:43 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <91978C1C-C8BB-4353-B782-94B7923656C5@Web.DE> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18utJiAAFaPP5yEBoVSRhWAwxkw7sS2ogsfexr UZPTTdWD1rn6A0PP4MoGSs89IjmGmDorjmh9i1xhLx6RFNiDhY 4nNekGwog1rvb+yd6m6Qw== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6? (barebone, rare!) 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:58281 Archived-At: On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:21:58PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 02.10.2008 um 04:46 schrieb Taylor Venable: >> Some X fonts (for example, the smaller -misc-fixed ones) look ugly to >> me in bold > > Is it so impossible to use other fonts? No, but I like using this one because it's fast and gives a lot of screen space on the relatively small laptop that it's running on. I take it that it's never come up before to want to turn off bold fonts? It doesn't seem such a strange request to me. -- Taylor Venable http://real.metasyntax.net:2357/ "(What the world needs (I think) is not (a Lisp (with fewer parentheses)) but (an English (with more.)))" [Brian Hayes]