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Faces in Formatted Text
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   The Faces submenu lists various Emacs faces including `bold',
`italic', and `underline'.  Selecting one of these adds the chosen face
to the region.  Note: Faces.  You can also specify a face with these
keyboard commands:

`M-g d'
     Set the region, or the next inserted character, to the `default'
     face (`facemenu-set-default').

`M-g b'
     Set the region, or the next inserted character, to the `bold' face
     (`facemenu-set-bold').

`M-g i'
     Set the region, or the next inserted character, to the `italic'
     face (`facemenu-set-italic').

`M-g l'
     Set the region, or the next inserted character, to the
     `bold-italic' face (`facemenu-set-bold-italic').

`M-g u'
     Set the region, or the next inserted character, to the `underline'
     face (`facemenu-set-underline').

`M-g o FACE <RET>'
     Set the region, or the next inserted character, to the face FACE
     (`facemenu-set-face').

   If you use these commands with a prefix argument--or, in Transient
Mark mode, if the region is not active--then these commands specify a
face to use for your next self-inserting input.  Note: Transient
Mark.  This applies to both the keyboard commands and the menu
commands.

   Enriched mode defines two additional faces: `excerpt' and `fixed'.
These correspond to codes used in the text/enriched file format.

   The `excerpt' face is intended for quotations.  This face is the
same as `italic' unless you customize it (Note: Face Customization).

   The `fixed' face means, "Use a fixed-width font for this part of the
text."  This makes a visible difference only if you have specified a
variable-width font in the default face; however, even if the default
font is fixed-width, applying the `fixed' face to a part of the text
will cause that part of the text to appear in a fixed-width font, if
the file is ever displayed with a variable-width default font.  This
applies to Emacs and to other systems that display text/enriched
format.  So if you specifically want a certain part of the text to use
a fixed-width font, you should specify the `fixed' face for that part.

   The `fixed' face is normally set up to use a different font from the
default, even if the default face is also fixed-width.  Different
systems have different fonts installed, so you may need to customize
this.  Note: Face Customization.

   If your terminal cannot display different faces, you will not be
able to see them, but you can still edit documents containing faces,
and even add faces and colors to documents.  The faces you specify will
be visible when the file is viewed on a terminal that can display them.