Re: What font do you use in Emacs/XEmacs

[Sudish Joseph <sudish@mindspring.com>]

Danny Siu <dsiu@mv.us.adobe.com> writes:
> Since Gnus uses italic in many places, I just wonder what font do people use
> to display that?
>
> Courier 12 seems to work fine but it's too hard to read.
> lucidasanstypewriter-12 is clean and easy to read _BUT_ doesn't have italic.

I'd be -very- interested in any emailed replies to this.  

I prefer using 9x15 for the default font and it doesn't have italic,
either.  What I currently do in 19.31 is to use courier for missing
stuff:
(set-face-font 'italic  "-*-courier-medium-o-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*")
(set-face-font 'bold-italic "-*-courier-bold-o-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*")

If you use hilit-lookup-face-create to create your fonts, it'll copy
the font off those two when necessary.  (Or, did I patch it?  I
forget.  If hl319 doesn't do it, doesn't, mail me.)

This isn't bad at all, except for flakiness in the redisplay stuff in
GNU Emacs caused by the use of two different fonts all over the place
(and I mean -all over-, you should see what my c/elisp/cperl mode
buffers look like...if you have a strong eye and stomach :-).  

You get random pixel droppings if you page through stuff often.  Also,
cursor movement in the wrong direction can cause "thinning" of certain
characters.

I'm hoping XEmacs will handle this correctly.  I'm pretty sure it should.

-Sudish