GNU bug report logs - #3727
NS: wrong font chosen

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Adrian Robert <adrian.b.robert <at> gmail.com>

Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:00:04 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: unreproducible

Merged with 3588, 3593, 3596

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

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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).
bug reassigned from package `emacs' to `emacs,ns'. Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Merged 3588 3593 3596 3727. Request was from Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> to control <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com. (Wed, 01 Jul 2009 01:00:05 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
Added tag(s) unreproducible. Request was from Alan Third <alan <at> idiocy.org> to control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Sun, 24 Jan 2016 16:39:03 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
bug archived. Request was from Debbugs Internal Request <help-debbugs <at> gnu.org> to internal_control <at> debbugs.gnu.org. (Mon, 08 Aug 2016 11:24:04 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.
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