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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
Cc: tracker <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#3727: closed (NS: wrong font chosen)
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 14:53:03 +0000

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From: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: NS: wrong font chosen
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:53:40 -0400

On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:12 PM, David Reitter wrote:

> On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
>
>> Hmm, Lucida Calligraphy has 'italic' set, which I assume causes  
>> emacs to not use it for non-italic text.  However, I wonder why it  
>> is creating a synth-italic entity here -- it shouldn't.
>
> That's right, there's only an italic variant of it.  (If I demand  
> italic, it uses it and does NOT use a synthetic variant.)
>
> If there's only an italic variant, it should be used as regular,  
> and, in principle, the italic variant should be realized as a  
> synthetic font.  Normally what I've seen done there in print is  
> that if a block of text is emphasized in italics, the extra- 
> emphasized portions of it are then regular.  So you could create a  
> synthetic variant with slant to the left (using the existing slant  
> (degree) information).

I'm not sure this is a call that should be made by the driver or the  
emacs core (when it asks for fonts in family X, and only italic comes  
back).

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From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>, 3588-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 3596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3596: NS: wrong font chosen
Date: Sun, 10 Jul 2016 15:52:25 +0100

Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> writes:

> I can't reproduce this in Emacs 25. I don't have Lucida Calligraphy, but
> Brush Script MT appears to only have Italic and it displays fine.

No response in quite a long time. I believe the NS font back-end has been
completely replaced since this bug report.
-- 
Alan Third

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