On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:

> I could, but then I didn't really see much sense in having these (and
> only these) be configurable.

Probably the rest should be configurable too, but I at least needed this
ones while reading a long rss2mail mail recently.

> The Emacs display engine is way too weak to deal with fonts of differing
> sizes in general.  If you increase the size of h1, for instance, it
> won't get filled properly, in addition to the fore-mentioned table
> problems.
>
> So I'm not sure having them being customisable is a good thing, because
> users will set them and then they will complain about how ugly some
> things look.

I think you are over-thinking here.

>> Currently, I read some posts with a lot of h[3-6] headings, and I am not
>> able to distinguish them (my font does not have italic, so h3 is like
>> h[4-6]), which is totally uncomfortable.
>
> Couldn't you install a font with italics?  :-)
>
> By the way, I just noticed that the font I'm using on this machine
> ("Inconsolata:pixelsize=27") doesn't seem to have italics, either..
> Anybody know how to fix that?  I think the font itself should have
> italics, but Emacs doesn't display them...

Guess what, I'm using Inconsolata too. It's the best font I found to use
for Emacs and terminals. This fonts does not have italics support,
there's nothing to fix here.

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Julien Danjou
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