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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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