From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76103 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Italics in Emacs Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 14:04:17 -0800 Organization: Programmerer Ingebrigtsen Message-ID: <878vy4ofby.fsf@gnus.org> References: <877hdr8798.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <8739od3o40.fsf@gnus.org> <87oc71rp69.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296252303 27806 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 22:05:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 22:05:03 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24455@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 28 23:04:58 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiwR8-0003vA-7v for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:04:58 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PiwR4-0002lu-A0; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:04:54 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PiwR3-0002lp-CH for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:04:53 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiwQz-0007cM-4c for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:04:53 -0600 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiwQy-000434-DN for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:04:48 +0100 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PiwQy-0003rM-7s for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:04:48 +0100 Original-Received: from baybryj.net ([198.144.208.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:04:48 +0100 Original-Received: from larsi by baybryj.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 23:04:48 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Lines: 17 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: baybryj.net Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAKlBMVEVkAAlvCQ3j2tdLAApG AAj8/PzClWrWvJGAAw6AGxShUD2GNBFHAAi/cU+/Y6GXAAACSklEQVQ4jZ3Qz2vaUBwA8MB2KBs7 DNxQh4c9eAaEwoRexhi0dbb+oIc9eXnQo/UHCl4cmSAUlPawrXipsrUTL6UGjXgopBAR/4H1WKNU yP+y70ucVbeCLAl55H3y/fWEwFidqBHV3W7cDjrqebVe09aGoduesE0JpU3aZDKh8GC6r63ddQ8A WIrgJjYohl1CDCZp7kQrBSAplCSxDJv8kiVJezkWsxlhG74wXIgRBk8TIjwZKdUWdpDXG0cX6HNB XPchq4bTPPzUE3axV9xFXiT+EE9f64+OXceacxhK9IQgK5Agg3QGNT7+BRKhxMDJRYDiAATLFC8A HxDxIXESk5YFXyyI5HNpfmfTSjo9eV57VdXqdqrp3xJfKIq9oBeUMdqGARWGeRqYGsfzsWuchHYA AklmAeWQPY01cRF7KUDQOhIZI2sh+zJFImG0BUeyjuBE4kWECGxSahBeoyVExDzsHyJfZZzPFooO 15H2cxg+0IVrPhsvXeHpmAPm+Art6sIOtGnQvERwksYXgKWxLBOJjGTZV1iK4KnYcqqAokz2uuro rqKk1VTmHqKKux9+23/qb2ieji7wrmx4PxqZe2au0zVHpmm9Jjb86poAZn9g5gAGIFP48D1aDm06 bwIV7cmV7ne4qtqJDY0ZPLvS3zyGGqtBlENvCUocNucjwnMR/4JpRM3TewjOV4VpDcdDEStD9//g zIazZdiyoFLnESXt5PIenDbwiDKHIYebPzUA/BuuUm0ZNmworwRb8zCr8W7a1Qy+XUYS+m/gatuu AI8UswAAAABJRU5ErkJggg== Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:agdQ8VoMpHv6U42/4x9pIs9baDM= X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76103 Archived-At: > I like Inconsolata a lot, but Terminus fits me better. I tried Terminus now, and it was too "thin" on this screen, at least. To get it to be comfortably readable I had to jack it up to pixelsize 35, which left only 18 lines vertically... > No, you can't auto-slant a font easily. But when you do, it's > apparently called "oblique" (see > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oblique_type and > http://www.marksimonson.com/article/128/fake-vs-true-italics). Well, that's why I said "auto-slant" and not "auto-italicalizise". :-) (That should be a word.) -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen