Daniel Goldin <danielgol...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 23 Aug 2009, Nick Bell wrote: > > > Daniel Goldin wrote: > >> Non-programmer-type can't see markup like /this/ as emphasized. I > >> looked through manual and searched web but found no answer. Any > >> thoughts? > > Are you using a font which has a separate italic form? Try switching > > to a font which you know does, such as Courier New. > > > > Now wait for an expert to come along. > > > Doesn't help, I'm afraid. > I've seen this problem before and I never chased it down but when I saw Nick Bell's idea, I figured that's got to be it. It *almost* works but not quite (as Daniel found out).
If you enter /italic/ in an org buffer, place your cursor in there and say M-x describe-text-properties, you get: ,---- | Text content at position 48: | | | There are text properties here: | face (italic) | font-lock-multiline t | fontified t `---- You can then M-x describe-face italic <RET>. For me, that had the :underline attribute set, and the :slant attribute unset. If you customize the face, set the :slant attribute (e.g. to italic) and unset the :underline attribute and *then* change to a font that provides an italic form, then /italic/ is indeed italicized. The problem seems to be in faces.el: ,---- | (defface italic | '((((supports :slant italic)) | :slant italic) | (((supports :underline t)) | :underline t) | (t | ;; default to italic, even it doesn't appear to be supported, | ;; because in some cases the display engine will do it's own | ;; workaround (to `dim' on ttys) | :slant italic)) | "Basic italic face." | :group 'basic-faces) `---- which apparently looked at my default font[1], found that it does not support italics but does support underlines and set the attributes accordingly. *Why* it falls back to underlining is probably a question that should be addressed to the emacs developers, but it looks like a bug to me (hence copied to the emacs bugs list - version info appended[2]) HTH, Nick [1] I have (set-default-font "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-120-100-100-c-90-iso8859-1") in my .emacs. I think this is what used to be called "9x15" at some point in the past, but I'm really not sure. [2] Version info: GNU Emacs 23.1.50.1 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 2.12.9) of 2009-08-09 on gamaville.dokosmarshall.org Org-mode version 6.29trans (release_6.29c.55.ga48f) _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Remember: use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode
