Custom & italic

[One of my rare "awake from xemacs coma" moments.] I think in order to fix the bad interaction between the italic face and custom one "merely" needs to convert the size[1] function to use frobbing. i.e. ; ; I have kept the dependency on font.el for now ; (defun make-face-size-helper (fontinst size &optional device) (let ((fontobj (font-create-object (font-instance-name fontinst) device))) (set-font-size fontobj size) (font-create-name fontobj device))) (defun make-face-size (face size &optional locale tags) "Make FACE SIZE in LOCALE, if possible. Add/Replace settings specified by tags only." (frob-face-property face 'font (lambda (f d) (make-face-size-helper f size d)) nil locale tags)) (defun custom-set-face-font-size (face size &optional locale tags) "Set the font of FACE to SIZE." (make-face-size face size locale tags)) This makes it possible to set the size using custom. I haven't done any long-term testing. On the good side this (combined with the same for family ) might very well get us a lot closer to having custom & Mule play well. Hope this helps, Jan Footnotes: [1] and really the family as well.