I was poking around my system, and I notices that Acrobat Reader for x86 has some rather nice otf fonts in it - of particular interest - CourierStd-BoldOblique.otf CourierStd-Bold.otf CourierStd-Oblique.otf CourierStd.otf They look nicer imho than Courier New from the ms coreweb fonts, and they have been updated to include the Euro (I don't believe Courier New from ms coreweb has, and none of those fonts will be updated since MS ended the program.) I know how to tell the local.conf file to use Courier Std when Courier New is specified in a document, but I don't know how to tell it to use Oblique member of the family when italic member is specified. The problem comes when printing a document (ie to file or paper), xft seems to make a fake italic which is good enough for screen (but doesn't print at all). Any suggestions?
