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Subject: Re: Small addition for make-face-italic
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From: Jens Lautenbacher <jens@metrix.de>
Date: 07 Mar 1997 02:46:37 +0100
In-Reply-To: Raymond Toy's message of Thu, 06 Mar 1997 15:57:58 -0500
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Raymond Toy <toy@rtp.ericsson.se> writes:

> Here is a possible small patch for make-face-italic that makes it do
> what I want.  My problem is that with my adobe courier font,
> make-face-italic wants to use a slant of "i".  This picks a type 1
> font that doesn't render well.  However, a slant of "o" gets the
> bitmapped font that I really want.  
> 
> This patch allows the user to choose which should be tried first.  The
> default is the current behaviour, of course.

I strongly second that and it should even be made the default.

	   JTL

