On Jun 17, 2009, at 1:10 AM, Adrian Robert wrote:
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.
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.)
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).