From: Alan Third <alan@idiocy.org>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com>
Cc: 3588@debbugs.gnu.org, Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert@gmail.com>,
3596@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3588: bug#3596: NS: wrong font chosen
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:38:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m24me33pca.fsf@galloway.idiocy.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1F314607-B8A8-4D62-93B4-86B455805861@gmail.com> (David Reitter's message of "Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:12:55 -0400")
David Reitter <david.reitter@gmail.com> writes:
> 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 can't reproduce this in Emacs 25. I don't have Lucida Calligraphy, but
Brush Script MT appears to only have Italic and it displays fine.
I can't make it give me a synthetic italic of the italic, though. It
always looks the same.
--
Alan Third
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-24 16:38 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 ` bug#3727: " Adrian Robert
2016-01-24 16:38 ` Alan Third [this message]
2016-07-10 14:52 ` bug#3588: bug#3596: " Alan Third
2009-06-17 14:14 ` bug#3588: " David Reitter
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