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On 2007-05-30, Tim Johnson <tim@johnsons-web.com> wrote:
>
> In my .Xdefaults on slack, I used the following directive:
> Emacs*Font: -adobe-times-bold-i-normal--12-120-75-75-p-68-iso8859-1
> and was very happy with the display.
>
> The same 'code' on ubuntu has unhappy results, everything is in italics.
> Commenting out that code makes for a nice display, but font is too large
> for my preference.
>

Try:

-adobe-times-bold-r-normal--12-120-75-75-p-68-iso8859-1

Note the change   ^

If you don't like that, open xfontsel and play around with the options
until you find a combination you like.

HTH,

Tyler