From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org>
Subject: Re: Italic-Fonts does not change
Date: 14 Nov 2001 08:58:56 +0900
Message-ID: <87eln2w7cv.fsf(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp>
Hi Stephen....
...making some light... ;-)
Thank you for your reply ! :o)
I did the following test to ensure, that I am using the correct face:
I changed the background color for "italic" and the chnages were also
present in AUC-TeX using italics. So I /think/ ( == dont know for sure )
it is the correct thing to change.
set-face-font seems to refuse to accept ANY change for the italic face,
regardless, whether I am using oblique fonts or something else. The problem
seems not to be the input (font-string), but something "inside" which
refuses to change...
I set the appropiate variable as described: Again no change.
I am not able to set the italic face to anything else than that what seems
to be "burned in" in XEmacs. Kinda CD-ROM, which get written while compiling
XEmacs.
I am using XFree86 4.10 on an Athlon based PC with linux 2.4.13ac8. I am using
IceWM, no session manager or management.
keep hacking the right site of life ! :-)
Meino
stephen> Shooting in the dark here:
stephen>
stephen> >>>>> "Meino" == Meino Christian Cramer
<mccramer(a)s.netic.de> writes:
stephen>
stephen> M-x set-face-font <RETURN> italic <RETURN>
-adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--14-135-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1"" <RETURN>
stephen>
stephen> set-face-font should not have a problem setting this, but it is true
stephen> that Custom probably would not be able to in any event, because it
stephen> treats the 4 default faces (default, italic, bold, bold-italic)
stephen> specially. It would probably refuse to give you bold-italic for the
stephen> italic font.
stephen>
stephen> after switching to tex-mode (which activates AUC-TeX).
stephen>
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>
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>
stephen> Thanks for following up!
stephen>
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