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

Previous Next

Full log

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

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).

Previous Next

GNU bug tracking system
Copyright (C) 1999 Darren O. Benham, 1997,2003 nCipher Corporation Ltd, 1994-97 Ian Jackson.