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 > -- > JRT > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.