>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull
<stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes: 
    Stephen> Shooting in the dark here:
>>>> "Meino" == Meino Christian Cramer
<mccramer(a)s.netic.de> writes: 
    Stephen> 		 M-x set-face-font <RETURN> italic <RETURN>
-adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--14-135-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1"" <RETURN>
    Stephen> set-face-font should not have a problem setting this, but
Huh?  What about the trailing "" in the font?
    Stephen> it is true that Custom probably would not be able to in
    Stephen> any event, because it treats the 4 default faces
    Stephen> (default, italic, bold, bold-italic) specially.  It would
    Stephen> probably refuse to give you bold-italic for the italic
    Stephen> font.
    Stephen> 		 after switching to tex-mode (which activates AUC-TeX).
    Stephen> Are you sure AUC-TeX uses the 'italic face?  Just because the font
you
    Stephen> see is italic doesn't mean the face is 'italic.  The face could
be
    Stephen> 'tex-emph or something like that.
    Stephen> As other posters suggested, try an oblique face or the
    Stephen> try-oblique-before-italic-fonts variable.  However, the latter will
    Stephen> not affect set-face-font which is a very low-level utility.
    Stephen> Thanks for following up!
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