Fixed width italic and bold?

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1 total messages Started by Steve Tynor Sat, 06 Mar 1993 00:37

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Author: Steve Tynor
Date: Sat, 06 Mar 1993 00:37

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I use hilit.el to highlight source code buffers in Epoch and would
really like to augment my styles with something more than just color
variations -- I'm looking for a bold and italic version of `fixed'.  The
courier fonts are too fussy and serify for my tastes -- For the italic,
I think I'd be happy with a simple fixed width encoding of
`times-italic' -- for bold, I'd prefer a bolded version of `fixed', but
for either, I'm more concerned that they all be the same size, moreso
than how they look (though, like I said, the courier variants leave me
cold).  

It's important to me that all three variants be the same height and
share the same character widths, so that columnized formatting (indented
expressions, filled text, etc.) look `right'.

Is there an `easy' way to turn the variable width `times-italic' into a
fixed width font? How 'bout creating a bold version of `fixed' via bit
shifting?  Maybe create an oblique version of fixed via a bit shear
rather than fixifying `times-italic'?  Are there other PD X-fonts
floating around out there other than the defaults?  What sorts of tools
exist for editing fonts?

Platform: SPARCstation, SunOS 4.1, Openwindows 2.0 or 3.0 (based on X11R4).

Thanks!

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