Re: Italic font does not have same height as non-italic

[Miles Bader]

"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
>> Er, so what?
>> 
>> [It's nice when variants of a mono-spaced font are sized consistently
>> with it, but I think it's up to the font creator to do that.]
>
> Would it not be nice if Emacs by default used a consistently sized font?

Sure, but I'm not sure it's very easy for Emacs to do (not that I know
anything about w32 font selection :-).  Even if it was easy, it may not
be desirable -- for instance if a slightly inconsistent font was much
more readable than a consistent font, it's probably better to just deal
with it and use the more readable font (italics are hardly very common
in Emacs anyway).

Anyway, I'll shut up now; hopefully some w32 people can say something
more concrete... :-)

-Miles

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