From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Italics in Emacs
Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:03:26 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87oc71rp69.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8739od3o40.fsf@gnus.org>
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:47:59 -0800 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> wrote:
LI> Oh, darn. I really like Inconsolata. It's, by far, the most pleasant
LI> font I've used in Emacs...
I like Inconsolata a lot, but Terminus fits me better. Terminus also
doesn't have italics, but has an oblique version at least. The major
issues for me are always 0 vs. O (both put a slash through 0 so it looks
different) and l vs. 1 (they look very similar in both, which annoys
me). Terminus also has better Unicode coverage IIRC, which matters to
me. See http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ if you want to see other choices.
LI> Can't Emacs auto-slant things to make semi-italics? Googling shows
LI> people saying stuff like "slant=1", but I can't get that to work...
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).
There's a horde of typography nerds headed for your house right now with
torches and pitchforks, demanding a human sacrifice for daring to ask
that question.
Ted
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2011-01-26 10:27 ` [gnus git] branch master updated: =1= * shr.el: Revert change that made headings use different-sized faces. The Emacs display engine isn't advanced enough that, for instance, tables can comfortably use differntly-sized faces Julien Danjou
2011-01-27 1:28 ` Italics in Emacs (was: [gnus git] branch master updated: =1= * shr.el: Revert change that made headings use different-sized faces. The Emacs display engine isn't advanced enough that, for instance, tables can comfortably use differntly-sized faces.) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-27 9:25 ` Italics in Emacs Julien Danjou
2011-01-27 23:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 9:47 ` Julien Danjou
2011-01-28 16:03 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-01-28 16:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-28 22:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 23:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-29 1:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 22:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 23:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-29 1:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31 17:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-31 18:53 ` Steinar Bang
2011-01-28 17:44 ` James Cloos
2011-01-28 22:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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