From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Disable bold fonts? Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 05:22:42 -0700 Organization: Noname Inc. Message-ID: References: <20081002024646.GA22924@metasyntax.net> <91978C1C-C8BB-4353-B782-94B7923656C5@Web.DE> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1222957340 7465 80.91.229.12 (2 Oct 2008 14:22:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 2 Oct 2008 14:22:20 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 02 16:23:09 2008 connect(): Connection refused Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KlP51-0007k9-U6 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 16:23:00 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54163 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KlP3y-0001BH-Pp for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:21:54 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!newshub.sdsu.edu!flpi089.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.net!flpi088.ffdc.sbc.com!prodigy.com!flpi107.ffdc.sbc.com!flpi147.ffdc.sbc.com.POSTED!8e1d8614!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Emacs Gnus Cancel-Lock: sha1:wrKBs/DDkXZgQL0WL28WljFst2g= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 75.36.179.225 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@prodigy.net Original-X-Trace: flpi147.ffdc.sbc.com 1222949994 ST000 75.36.179.225 (Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:19:54 EDT) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 08:19:54 EDT X-UserInfo1: Q[R_PJSCO@RQBQXYWJKB_\XBUSXB@DTMNHWB_EYLJZ]BGIELLNTC@AWZWDXZXQ[K\FFSKCVM@F_N_DOBWVWG__LG@VVOIPLIGX\\BU_B@\P\PFX\B[APHTWAHDCKJF^NHD[YJAZMCY_CWG[SX\Y]^KC\HSZRWSWKGAY_PC[BQ[BXAS\F\\@DMTLFZFUE@\VL Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:162942 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 10:18:08 -0400 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:58288 Archived-At: Taylor Venable writes: > On Thu, Oct 02, 2008 at 12:21:58PM +0200, Peter Dyballa wrote: >> Am 02.10.2008 um 04:46 schrieb Taylor Venable: >>> Some X fonts (for example, the smaller -misc-fixed ones) look ugly to >>> me in bold >> >> Is it so impossible to use other fonts? > > No, but I like using this one because it's fast and gives a lot of > screen space on the relatively small laptop that it's running on. > > I take it that it's never come up before to want to turn off bold > fonts? It doesn't seem such a strange request to me. I use color themes package. I would not change my font just so I can get bold that looks nice to me. I created another theme to remove bold attribute whereever it was bothering me in my regular usage. There are still some faces with bold lurking in them, but as long as it does not bother me I don't care. Chetan