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From: Andrew J Cosgriff <Andrew.Cosgriff@cc.monash.edu.au>
Subject: font weirdness
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(2.0.3 b14 on digital unix, but I doubt it's specific to this particular version)

I was fiddling around with fonts, and found one that Digital Unix (and
Ultrix) had called ITC Souvenir, that I used to use with Epoch way
back when (about 1993 or so).

I figured i'd get XEmacs to use it instead of helvetica, which I
currently use, but the following things happend -

a) since souvenir only has a "demi" weight instead of "bold", XEmacs
   complained at startup, and suggested I hardcode an
   Emacs.bold.attributeFont in my .Xdefaults, which I did, although
   perhaps XEmacs could be fixed to look for "demi" in the absence of
   a "bold" weight ?

b) what was even weirder was that for some reason or other, once I
   started doing the above, i'd fire up gnus, compose an email and
   find that all of my headers[1] were in a huge fixed width font because 
   XEmacs/custom/gnus decided it didn't know what Palatino was anymore 
   - as soon as I change back to helvetica, palatino suddenly works
   again (with the same font path and other stuff, so I'm not (yet)
   suspecting my X server)

Anybody got any good ideas what's going on ?

Andrew

Footnotes: 
[1]  My font setup in message-mode is basically to use helvetica
(default) for normal text, and palatino for the headers, with the
header names in bold.

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