Difference between Italic and Bold Italic?

[Dik Takken]

On Fri, 30 Jan 2004, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> Dik Takken wrote:
> > On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Dik Takken wrote:
> >>
> >>>Hi,
> >>>
> >>>Can anyone tell me why KDE shows no difference between a Italic font and a
> >>>Bold Italic font? No matter what font I try, any italic font is
> >>>automatically also bold.
> >>>
> >>>I have the newest QT, Freetype, Xft and FontConfig.
> >>
> >>Note: it is best to start a new thread.
> >
> >
> > Question: How do I start a new thread?
> >
> In Mozilla Mail, right click the address and chose: "Compose Mail To" in
> the context menu.

How about pine? :)

> >
> >>Qt handles the fonts so, if you are having the problem with all fonts then
> >>it is probably a bug in Qt.  If you are using a Beta, try it with the
> >>latest release: 3.2.3
> >
> >
> > I use QT 3.2.3. How are your italic fonts looking?
>
> The common ones like Arial, Courier New, Times, Times New Roman, work
> correctly.  However, some do screw up.
>
> Is it only specific fonts that don't work, or all of them?

I found some that do work correctly, most of them are serif fonts.
Personally, I use a lot of sans-serif fonts like Areal. Many of these
fonts do not appear to work correctly. I guess that sounds more like a
Xft/Freetype/Fontconfig problem.

Dik

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