Choice of X fonts in Emacs

[Zack Weinberg <zack@rabi.columbia.edu>]

I'm using emacs19 with slink (2.1).  I use font-lock mode to syntax
highlight C.  When font-lock wants an italic font, it uses
-adobe-courier-medium-i-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1, which
looks hideous; this is because -adobe-courier-medium-i-normal only
exists as a scalable font.  I'd much rather it would use
-adobe-courier-medium-o-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1 instead,
which has a bitmap version that looks fine.  (The only difference in
the names is replace -i- by -o-)

I have told Emacs to use the proper font for the `italic' and
`bold-italic' faces via X resources, but this does not carry over to
the font-lock faces.  I don't want to write resources for every single
italic face that might appear.  Is there any way to tell Emacs
that it should use -o- fonts for italicization, always?  Failing
that, is there a way to tell the X server that requests for
-adobe-courier-*-i-normal should be remapped to
-adobe-courier-*-o-normal?

zw