Re: Removed forward slash?

[Rui Zhu <sprache@iname.com>]

Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> writes:

> / Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> was heard to say:
> | I suspect that it might be the case that Harry's Emacs does not render
> | italics correctly, for whatever reason.  In that case, italicizing
> | will really look like "removing slashes", which is quite
> | disconcerting.
> 
> This thread has just caused me to notice that neither bold nor
> italic seem to be working on my emacs, though underlining does
> (and the font I'm using is available in both variations, I
> believe).
> 
> This is Emacs 20.3.1 under NT using the face
> 
>   (set-default-font "-*-Fixedsys-normal-r-*-*-13-97-*-*-c-*-*-ansi-")
> 
> Several debugging forays have lead nowhere. Anyone with experience
> debugging faces have a suggestion?

I had the same behavior after I upgraded emacs from 20.2.x to 20.3.x.  I
used to set fontset in X resource file.  Though I know 9x15 has bold,
but emacs did not show me that.  The reason I just found is that in
`create-fontset-from-x-resource' of `fontset.el' there is such a call:

(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec fontset-spec nil 'noerror)
                                               ^^^

(see info) so that no other styles is created for user specified
fontsets.  Now I create my fontsets in .emacs my self, then it's all
right, in fact I'd prefer to do that in the elisp way.

But I don't know what one should do on NT.

Cheers,
        Rui