Bug 75275
| Summary: | courier italic font bigger than normal font | ||||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Ville Skyttä <scop> | ||||||
| Component: | xemacs | Assignee: | Jens Petersen <petersen> | ||||||
| Status: | CLOSED RAWHIDE | QA Contact: | Jay Turner <jturner> | ||||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||||
| Version: | 8.0 | CC: | srevivo | ||||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | Keywords: | FutureFeature | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||||
| Hardware: | i386 | ||||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Enhancement | |||||||
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| Last Closed: | 2002-11-12 14:44:49 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||||
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Description
Ville Skyttä
2002-10-06 18:34:04 UTC
Created attachment 79084 [details]
xemacs out of the box on RH8
Created attachment 79085 [details]
Fixed situation with try-oblique-before-italic-fonts t
Looks reasonable. Ok, I tested this a bit, and I agree adding the above line to site-start.el fixes the italic face size problem with latin-1 default adobe-courier font. However it doesn't seem to fix the startup splash screen for me like in your screenshot. Does this require a rebuilt to have effect the startup fonts too? Well there is one way to find out... You know, it *did* fix the splash screen fonts for me, the screenshots are there. However, it (alone) isn't enough any more for me either, dunno why. And rebuild is not necessary. Anyway, this does work for me now: ;; Oblique produces usually better results than italic. (setq-default try-oblique-before-italic-fonts t) (custom-set-faces '(bold-italic ((t (:bold t :italic t))) t) '(italic ((t (:italic t))) t)) Yeah, that does it or even (make-face-italic 'italic) (make-face-italic 'bold-italic) But this seems like a bit of a hack since clearly the italic fonts are being initialised somewhere earlier in the startup process. True, it's kinda hacky. But putting only the (setq-default try-oblique-before-italic-fonts t) part in fixes the fonts in modes that use italics, eg. cperl-mode, so I think that should at least be applied. The splash screen is not that important anyway. I'll ask if there's something we could do about this by default in XEmacs (I'm a dev team member). Well, I asked about it, and got a couple of answers. I'd say that means the hack above could be applied to the RH XEmacs package. If you don't like the "hackish" part, please at least apply the try-oblique-before-italic-fonts part, since it seems to be a feature of the Courier font distributed with RH8. <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200210/msg00179.html> <http://list-archive.xemacs.org/xemacs-beta/200210/msg00176.html> Ok, thanks for looking into it further. I guess I'm ok, with adding the above in for the time being. Will try to get that done before too long. I presume it is the adobe courier font is "broken" in not having good italic coverage and not a RH specific problem? [Personally I use gothic, and I haven't had any problems - though normally I'm in a Japanese locale anyway.] *** Bug 75833 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. *** Fix will be in forthcoming package update. Should be fixed in xemacs-21.4.10-1. Thanks. Yep, I see the workaround is in rawhide, thanks. |