>>>>> "Itai" == Itai Ben-Yaacov <pezz(a)clipper.ens.fr> writes:
Itai> well, it DOESNT work for me. and it seems that this IS the problem: on my
Itai> system the italic font are in weird sizes, the oblique are right.
Itai> just a layman's question, though a bit off the subject: what's the
Itai> difference between oblique and italic? and why the wrong sizes in italics?
This is based on my very limited understanding of X11 and fonts, and
may be specific to my machine/setup on Solaris.
The standard bitmapped X11 font for adobe-courier calls its italic
font "oblique" instead of "italic". From a non-typography view, I
think they're just different names for the same thing, but I may be
wrong.
However, if you have Type1 scalable fonts available (as I do), I think
when xemacs requests an italic version of adobe-courier, the X11
server sees that there is an adobe-courier Type1 font and tries to
render an italic version. This is the ugly.
Itai> and why doesnt *try-oblique-before-italic-fonts* do its job?
That was what it was for and obviously something changed between b65
and b66 so that it doesn't.
Ray