[debbugs-tracker] bug#3727: closed (NS: wrong font chosen)

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regarding NS: wrong font chosen
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> Tue, 30 Jun 2009 07:53:40 -0400
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> On Jun 17, 2009, at 2:12 PM, David Reitter wrote:
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> > On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
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> > > Hmm, Lucida Calligraphy has 'italic' set, which I assume causes  
> > > emacs to not use it for non-italic text.  However, I wonder why it  
> > > is creating a synth-italic entity here -- it shouldn't.
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> > That's right, there's only an italic variant of it.  (If I demand  
> > italic, it uses it and does NOT use a synthetic variant.)
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> > If there's only an italic variant, it should be used as regular,  
> > and, in principle, the italic variant should be realized as a  
> > synthetic font.  Normally what I've seen done there in print is  
> > that if a block of text is emphasized in italics, the extra- 
> > emphasized portions of it are then regular.  So you could create a  
> > synthetic variant with slant to the left (using the existing slant  
> > (degree) information).
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> I'm not sure this is a call that should be made by the driver or the  
> emacs core (when it asks for fonts in family X, and only italic comes  
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> Alan Third <address@hidden> writes:
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> > I can't reproduce this in Emacs 25. I don't have Lucida Calligraphy, but
> > Brush Script MT appears to only have Italic and it displays fine.
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> No response in quite a long time. I believe the NS font back-end has been
> completely replaced since this bug report.
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> Alan Third
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