[Bug: 21.5-b26] info-node face: code vs docs conflict

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

thanks for the report!

>>>>> "Giacomo" == Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi at polimi.it> quotes Info:

      This is the face of info menu items.  If unspecified, it is copied
      from `bold-italic'.

OK, that's wrong.  The defface tries to set the face to bold-italic,
it doesn't copy the bold-italic face (that may have been true in
ancient times).

I think we should copy the bold-italic face, but I'm not sure that can
be done with defface.

Do you agree that obeying the resource for bold-italic is the right
way to go here?

    Giacomo> as to WHY xemacs isn't able to deduce a bold italic face
    Giacomo> from it's default face, i can only tell you that my
    Giacomo> specification for the default face is

    Giacomo>  % fc-match mono:style=Bold\ Oblique

Oblique != Italic.  We have a kludge to handle it for X fonts, but I
don't think it's handled at all in Xft.  This may get fixed someday,
but at present the whole Xft thing is too much of a mess to be worth
dealing with this now IMO (I'm working on ripping out the whole X/Xft
system of dealing with fonts and replacing it with fontconfig).  Maybe
Aidan will come up with something, or somebody.


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