From: amu@MIT.EDU (Aaron M. Ucko)
Cc: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Monospaced typeface
Date: 09 Jun 1997 14:37:26 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <udlwwo3k4gp.fsf@cutter-john.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Christopher Davis's message of "09 Jun 1997 13:53:51 -0400"
Christopher Davis <ckd@loiosh.kei.com> writes:
> SB> == Scott Byer <byer@Adobe.COM>
>
> SB> For monospaced, I prefer Lucida Typewriter (it's what I run Emacs
> SB> with). It's not as clunky as Courier.
>
> I like it, too, but there's no oblique/italic version! This is a major
> drawback when you use both colors and font styles for marking various
> types of text in XEmacs.
I actually wrote a program to obliquify a BDF font so that I could use
Emacs with 6x13 (-misc-fixed-...) and still get italics. You can use
it if you want; it should be accessible at
<URL:http://web.mit.edu/amu/scripts/slantbdf.pl>.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-06-09 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-07 1:05 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
[not found] ` <wk910l879i.fsf@peorth.gweep.net>
1997-06-09 17:17 ` Scott Byer
1997-06-09 17:53 ` Christopher Davis
1997-06-09 18:10 ` Scott Byer
1997-06-09 19:47 ` John McClary Prevost
1997-06-09 18:37 ` Aaron M. Ucko [this message]
1997-06-09 18:57 ` Danny Siu
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