Re: gnus font shortcuts

[jadamson@partners.org (Joel J. Adamson)]

David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:

> On Tue, 13 May 2008 12:35:14 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>
>> David Hansen <david.hansen@gmx.net> writes:
>>
>>> On Tue, 13 May 2008 11:00:31 -0400 Joel J. Adamson wrote:
>>>
>>>> I stand corrected; I'll put in that since I choose to use a font that
>>>> doesn't have slants, and underlining was originally a printing order for
>>>> italics, underlining is still good ;)
>>>
>>> You can use a different font for italic faces.
>>
>> Interesting: what variable do I customize?
>
> Actually every face that has set the "italic" flag.  I don't know if
> there is a way to find out about all these faces.  A good start is to
> customize-face italic and then set every face you want to be italic to
> "inherit" from the `italic' face.
>
> IMHO italic looks pretty ugly on computer screens, so there are just
> very few cases where I want that (the gnus emphasize thing is one of
> them).

This works: I set an alternative font family (Utopia, same as
variable-pitch) for the italic face, then set the inherit attribute on
the default face to "italic" and now I get italics in a different face.
Very cool.

Here's the excerpt from custom-set-faces:

'(italic ((t (:slant italic :family "Utopia"))))
'(default ((t (:inherit italic))))     

Joel
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