Re: Carbon Emacs uses incorrect bold and italics fonts

[YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu]

>>>>> On Fri, 16 Sep 2005 12:27:48 -0700 (PDT), Orca <address@hidden> said:

> Carbon Emacs does not properly load styles for some fonts. The key
> font with which I am having trouble is Bitstream Vera Sans Mono. The
> free font has specific typefaces for bold and italics styles. Carbon
> Emacs does not load these extra faces properly. Applying a bold
> style to Bitstream Vera Sans Mono should use Bitstream Vera Sans
> Mono Bold within the same font family. Instead, Carbon Emacs
> utilizes fonts in a way that the Font Manager incorrectly creates
> its own bold and italics glypths. I suspect this has something to do
> with the way that font names and styles are mapped into requesting
> fonts from the FontManager, but I'm not familiar enough with Carbon
> font programming to know exactly what's going wrong.

The Font Manager regards "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono", "Bitstream Vera
Sans Mono Bold", "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono Oblique", and "Bitstream
Vera Sans Mono Bold Oblique" as different font families just like
"Courier" and "Times" are different.

Possibily ATS regards them as a single font family, but I've never
tried that.  If so, future versions of Emacs might handle such a
situation.

                                     YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
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