The old XLFD based format is also supported for backwards compatibility.
Emacs 23 supports a number of backends. Currently on Windows the @code{gdi}
- font backend is supported.
+font backend is supported.
@cindex font properties (MS Windows)
@noindent
@code{slant} specifies whether the font is italic. Special values
@code{roman}, @code{italic} and @code{oblique} can be specified
without the @code{slant=} (eg @samp{Courier New-12:italic}).
-Otherwise the weight should be a numeric value, or one of the named
+Otherwise the slant should be a numeric value, or one of the named
slants in @code{font-slant-table}. On Windows, any slant above 150 is
treated as italic, and anything below as roman.