Stephen J. Turnbull writes:
Do you agree that obeying the resource for bold-italic is the right
way to go here?
i do. obeying the resource for bold-italic is also the way to
circumvent font problems that's documented in the sample.Xresources
file distributed with xemacs...
Giacomo> % fc-match mono:style=Bold\ Oblique
Oblique != Italic.
oh! ok