How to kludge neep font to pretend to have italics

italicneep-kludge

# Neep is the loveliest bitmap terminal font I've found so far with good Unicode coverage.
# Unfortunately, neep has no italics.
#
# As a quick workaround, one can use the terminus-oblique font as a replacement by using X fonts.alias. 

sudo apt-get install xfonts-jmk xfonts-terminus-oblique
echo "-jmk-neep-medium-o-normal--20-180-75-75-c-100-iso10646-1    -xos4-terminus-bold-o-normal--20-200-72-72-c-100-iso10646-1" > local.alias
echo "-jmk-neep-medium-o-normal--15-140-75-75-c-80-iso10646-1 	-xos4-terminus-bold-o-normal--14-140-72-72-c-80-iso10646-1" >> local.alias

sudo cp -i local.alias /etc/X11/fonts/misc/local.alias \
    && sudo update-fonts-alias misc \
    && xset fp rehash

xterm -fn *neep-medium-r-normal--20-*10646*

# Within xterm, you can test italics using 'tput sitm' and 'tput ritm'
tput sitm
echo "This is in italic!"
tput ritm
echo "This is not italic."