Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk&gt; writes: And customize-set-faces I hope. Yes. Then we can finally reintroduce the weight menu in the Options menu. It shouldn't be that difficult to do either. Generalized versions of the bla-make-font-bla functions are on the cards anyway. How is Emacs 20 intended to cope with these settings, or is that not a supported configuration. Jan P.S. I think WMPerry meant this with real font model: If you change the font family of the default face then the italic font us automatically taken from the same family. To that dynamically in XEmacs at the moment is hard.