From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76034 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Julien Danjou Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Italics in Emacs Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:25:20 +0100 Message-ID: References: <877hdr8798.fsf_-_@gnus.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296120335 3144 80.91.229.12 (27 Jan 2011 09:25:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:25:35 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24386@lists.math.uh.edu Thu Jan 27 10:25:30 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 1PiO6Y-0002e6-UR for ding-account@gmane.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:25:27 +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 1PiO6W-0000V9-AV; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:25:24 -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 1PiO6V-0000Uy-66 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:25:23 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiO6U-0006rj-2L for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:25:23 -0600 Original-Received: from coquelicot-s.easter-eggs.com ([213.215.37.94]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiO6T-0006gY-AQ for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:25:21 +0100 Original-Received: from cigue.easter-eggs.fr (cigue.easter-eggs.fr [10.0.0.33]) by rose.easter-eggs.fr (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BC27C141B4 for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:25:19 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from jdanjou by cigue.easter-eggs.fr with local (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PiO6T-0001bo-2d for ding@gnus.org; Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:25:21 +0100 Mail-Followup-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <877hdr8798.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:28:35 -0800") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-Spam-Score: -1.9 (-) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76034 Archived-At: --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable 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=3D27") 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. =2D-=20 Julien Danjou =E2=9D=B1 http://julien.danjou.info --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAk1BOgAACgkQpGK1HsL+5c2OBgCfZBH1TXMCaIIq0slK7jkyU4E/ q3oAoMMS0OgdKmo/nVgC2SfkcTysMGB2 =TuYz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=--