Colin> Raymond Toy writes: Colin> The problem with this is that it sets the face to a specific font, and Colin> if you want to change this, you have to change default, italic, and Colin> bold-italic. Colin> What we want to be able to do is set just the default font, and have Colin> all the other fonts magically inferred correctly. I agree with you 100%. This was just an ugly workaround. [snip] Colin> I'm not sure that we want to be telling our users that they need to do Colin> this to get the fonts right. Well, I used customize. Easier for new users, but the solution is unintuitive. I don't know how to get *t-o-b-i-f* set early enough. I guess we'd have to delay setting up any fonts until AFTER .emacs is read. Or perhaps *t-o-b-i-f* set via X resources. (Yuck) Ray