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bug#3596: NS: wrong font chosen
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Alan Third |
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bug#3596: NS: wrong font chosen |
Date: |
Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:38:13 +0000 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (darwin) |
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.
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Alan Third
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