From: Adrian.Aichner(a)t-online.de (Adrian Aichner)
   Date: 12 Nov 2001 20:37:25 +0100
   
>>>> "Meino" == Meino Christian Cramer
<mccramer(a)s.netic.de> writes: 
   
       Meino> Hi,
   
       Meino>  I have some problems regarding the change of any argument for
       Meino>  the italic fonts via customize-face (all).
   
       Meino>  Any help *very* appreciated!  Thank you very much in
       Meino>  advance !
   
   If possible, please install the latest net-utils package (1.23) and
   then use
   Help->Send Bug Report...
   or
   M-x report-emacs-bug
   to give us more details about your XEmacs installation.
   
It is important to give xemacs a good font.  A good font is complete
with bold and italic versions.  For example, I use adobe courier
(and in this case I have to tell it to try-oblique-before-italic-fonts)
bash% xlsfonts -fn '-adobe-courier-*-*-*-*-*-160-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*'
-adobe-courier-bold-o-normal--22-160-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-bold-r-normal--22-160-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--22-160-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--22-160-100-100-m-0-iso8859-1
Most likely you are using some partial font like misc-fixed that
does not come with an italic font.  You can startup xemacs with -font.
-jeff