>>>> "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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