GNU bug report logs - #3596
NS: wrong font chosen

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Message #5 received at submit <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
To: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-pretest-bug <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: NS: wrong font chosen
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:12:55 -0400

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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).

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Message #14 received at 3596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org>
To: David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 3588 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>,
 3596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#3596: NS: wrong font chosen
Date: Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:38:13 +0000

David Reitter <david.reitter <at> gmail.com> writes:

> 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 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.

I can't make it give me a synthetic italic of the italic, though. It
always looks the same.

-- 
Alan Third

Message #19 received at 3596 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

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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