Dear All, I have found that between XEmacs 20.4 and the new 21.whatever series (both in 21.1 and 21.2), both bold and italic fonts have stopped changing size when the font size is changed. I have searched the archives to see if this was discussed, but I only found a complain or two in the nt list but no explanation. The PROBLEMS file included in the distribution I have (the nt one) is out of date about the font menu (which now works) and makes no mention of size problems for italic or bold fonts. I have tested this mostly in the nt version (Fabrice Popineau's latest binary build, of a very slightly out of date 21.2, on nt4, both on SP3 and SP5). In this case, changing the size from the font Size submenu of the Options menu changes the "basic" (ie non-bold, non-italic) font but leaves bold and italic at 10pt, and the effect is the same if I try this from custom (whether I save it to the .emacs file or not). I have also looked at 21.1.3 (Acadia) on Unix (Solaris 2.6) using Exceed 6 as my X server on a pc, where I only tested changing the font size from the menu, and the behaviour seems to be that italics and bold are ALWAYS in 10 pt no matter what the size is when set from the Size submenu of the Options menu. In fact, I have it set to 18pt in my .emacs file (otherwise the letters are too small to read properly through Exceed), and the bold and italics come as 10pt as well on startup before I change anything. (I could not find a PROBLEMS file in this distribution, taken from the binary distros in xemacs.org, I think built by Charles Wilson). This does not happen in 20.4 (we have that still installed on another machine), where the bold and italic fonts rescale happily with the default when changed from the menu, and they come up happily in 18pt when I bring XEmacs up (it's using exactly the same .emacs file as the 21.1.3 version, since my home directory is mounted across), and the size changes uniformly down to 8pt with no problems. My .emacs file is a very slight variation on the sample.emacs file. So this seems to be generally broken, and the breakage to have happened between 20.4 and 21.something (and still be there in 21.2) unless, of course, the problem lies in the use of a pc running nt as the display, though I think Exceed has its own font set, so it would be a big coincidence if both the Exceed and the native NT versions had the same problem. Is nobody else seeing this? Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong, if anything? Or is this a true bug (I don't believe this is the intended behaviour)? Thanks, all the best, Claudia PS I asked Andy Piper and he suggested I forward this to the mailing list to see if anyone has any insight on the problem -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information about Barclays Capital, please visit our web site at http://www.barcap.com. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the Barclays Group does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the Barclays Group unless otherwise specifically stated. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------