Hi, I appended a more detailed description of the problem, giacomo boffi was already announcing (Subject: "bug: bold face"). In short: Changing the size of italic-face (and also of bold-face) via customize does not work (I did exactly the same for my "old" XEmacs 21.1 - and everything worked fine). Volker ====================================================================== - XEmacs related .Xresources: XEmacs.geometry: 85x34+0+0 ====================================================================== - Test whether standard font and desired font for italic exist: $xfontsel -pattern '-*-courier-medium-i-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' $xfontsel -pattern '-*-courier-medium-i-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*' ====================================================================== - Start xemacs-beta (XEmacs 21.2 (beta35) "Nike" [Lucid] (i586-pc-linux)): $xemacs-21.2-b35 -no-init-file - Test initial setting of italic face: M-x hyper-describe-face RET italic RET `italic' (buffer: *scratch*, mode: Lisp Interaction) Face: ABCDEFHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 Font: -*-courier-medium-i-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* Foreground: (black) Background: (gray80) Underline: (nil) Italic text. - Changing italic face via customize to 24pt: M-x customize-face RET italic RET - Test new setting of italic face: M-x hyper-describe-face RET italic RET `italic' (buffer: *Customize Face: Italic*, mode: Custom) Face: ABCDEFHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 Font: -*-courier-medium-i-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* Foreground: (black) Background: (gray80) Underline: nil Italic text. Property-list: face-comment: nil customized-face-comment: nil custom-face-display: t customized-face: ((t (:size "24pt" :italic t))) ====================================================================== - Start "old" xemacs (XEmacs 21.1 (patch 9) "Canyonlands" [Lucid] (i586-pc-linux)): $xemacs-21.1.9 -no-init-file - Test initial setting of italic face: M-x hyper-describe-face RET italic RET `italic' (buffer: *scratch*, mode: Lisp Interaction) Face: ABCDEFHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 Font: -*-courier-medium-i-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* Foreground: (black) Background: (gray80) Underline: (nil) Italic text. - Changing italic face via customize to 24pt (customize-face "italic") M-x customize-face RET italic RET - Test new setting of italic face: M-x hyper-describe-face RET italic RET `italic' (buffer: *scratch*, mode: Lisp Interaction) Face: ABCDEFHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ abcdefhijklmnopqrstuvwxyz 0123456789 Font: -*-courier-medium-i-*-*-*-240-*-*-*-*-iso8859-* Foreground: (black) Background: (gray80) Underline: nil Italic text. Property-list: custom-face-display: t customized-face: ((t (:size "24pt" :italic t))) ======================================================================