Raymond Toy writes: The problem with this is that it sets the face to a specific font, and if you want to change this, you have to change default, italic, and bold-italic. What we want to be able to do is set just the default font, and have all the other fonts magically inferred correctly. Sure. *t-o-b-i-f* works correctly (with my patch applied), but it just doesn't get set early enough. I just tried this in my .emacs, and it works. However, it's pretty ugly. (setq *try-oblique-before-italic-fonts* t) (make-face-unitalic 'italic) (make-face-unitalic 'bold-italic) (make-face-italic 'italic) (make-face-italic 'bold-italic) I'm not sure that we want to be telling our users that they need to do this to get the fonts right. -- Colin