From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org
Subject: bug#3727: NS: wrong font chosen
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:53:40 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D125783-20B1-474A-9908-18FBE8016DE8@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1F314607-B8A8-4D62-93B4-86B455805861@gmail.com>
On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:12 PM, David Reitter wrote:
> On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
>
>> Hmm, Lucida Calligraphy has 'italic' set, which I assume causes
>> emacs to not use it for non-italic text. However, I wonder why it
>> is creating a synth-italic entity here -- it shouldn't.
>
> That's right, there's only an italic variant of it. (If I demand
> italic, it uses it and does NOT use a synthetic variant.)
>
> If there's only an italic variant, it should be used as regular,
> and, in principle, the italic variant should be realized as a
> synthetic font. Normally what I've seen done there in print is
> that if a block of text is emphasized in italics, the extra-
> emphasized portions of it are then regular. So you could create a
> synthetic variant with slant to the left (using the existing slant
> (degree) information).
I'm not sure this is a call that should be made by the driver or the
emacs core (when it asks for fonts in family X, and only italic comes
back).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 11:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-16 15:08 bug#3588: NS: wrong font chosen David Reitter
2009-06-17 5:10 ` bug#3593: " Adrian Robert
2009-06-17 11:12 ` bug#3596: " David Reitter
2009-06-30 11:53 ` Adrian Robert [this message]
2016-01-24 16:38 ` bug#3588: " Alan Third
2016-07-10 14:52 ` Alan Third
2009-06-17 14:14 ` bug#3588: " David Reitter
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