From kde-bugs-dist  Sun Jul 29 18:53:36 2001
From: David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2001 18:53:36 +0000
To: kde-bugs-dist
Subject: Bug#29900: Fwd: Bug#29900: Oblique Fonts don't work
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-bugs-dist&m=99643716204685

On Sunday 29 July 2001 21:17, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> It appears that it supports both 'o' and 'i' in the Slant member of the
> XLFD structure to indicate italic.  So, there shouldn't be a Qt problem
> with matching that is dependent on which one is in the XLFD line.  But,
> KOffice is screwing up with fonts that use "Oblique" instead of
> "Italic".
> 
> It appears that even though Qt does not yet support width attributes
> that it should score a font with the Width member of of the XFLD
> structure equal to 'normal' higher than fonts with something else.  So,
> it should ignore Helvetica Narrow, but it uses it.  Helvetica with Width
> of 'normal' should always score higher that Helvetica with Width of
> 'narrow'.

I just pointed the expert, Lars, to this report, and he tells me this should be
fixed in Qt 2.3.1.
What version of Qt are you using ?
Can you try updating to 2.3.1 if you are using an older version ?

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