From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: SabreWolfy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Droid Sans Mono Italics Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 12:14:14 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1368620430 32061 80.91.229.3 (15 May 2013 12:20:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 May 2013 12:20:30 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 15 14:20:29 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucah1-0000EV-6J for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:20:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38874 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucah0-0003os-II for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 08:20:26 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:41128) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucagn-0003om-Rl for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 08:20:15 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucagh-0007Ww-1L for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 08:20:13 -0400 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:46086) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucagg-0007Wa-Pj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 08:20:06 -0400 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ucagc-0008J5-LB for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:20:05 +0200 Original-Received: from ss2.wits.ac.za ([146.141.1.92]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:20:02 +0200 Original-Received: from sabrewolfy by ss2.wits.ac.za with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 15 May 2013 14:20:02 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 5 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: sea.gmane.org User-Agent: Loom/3.14 (http://gmane.org/) X-Loom-IP: 146.141.1.92 (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:21.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/21.0) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:90805 Archived-At: I use Emacs 23.3.1 under Ubuntu 12.04. The default font face is Droid Sans Mono. However, any face which requires italics does not show as italics. I have tried all the options of oblique, slanted, italics, etc. However, in LibreOffice, I can selected Droid Sans Mono and make it italics. Why is this font variant not available in Emacs?