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Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com> writes:

> By the way, which is your favourite font for Emacs? I have always used
> -*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 because it was the default
> on my system but somehow I never see /italic/ characters in my Emacs
> when using this font. My color theme always prints /italic/ text with a
> bold face. I really think I should have to change this soon... :-)

I am very fond of:

Emacs*font: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1

-- 
"But remember, as long as one human being follows the rules of
mathematics, then mathematics as a human discipline survives.
Right now I'm that one human being, so mathematics survives."
                 -- James S. Harris