That article doesn't say which fonts have bold and italic variants. Do any of the free fonts mentioned have bold/italic? On my system I have 4 mono-spaced fonts; only Courier and Courier New have bold/italic variants. Andale Mono and Monoco are without variants.<div>
--ErikN<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Floeren <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:thomas.floeren@me.com">thomas.floeren@me.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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On 21.03.2012, at 14:31, Steve King wrote:<br>
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> On 2012-03-20 21:49, Allan Odgaard wrote:<br>
>> TM 2.0 uses CoreText which doesn’t synthesize bold and italic when the font has no such variant.<br>
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>> So you need to pick a font with a bold and italic variant for the theme styles to work. I have no plans of trying to synthesize these styles myself (not really feasible) and Apple seems content with not having CoreText do it (like the deprecated ATSUI did).<br>
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> Can't say I blame you, but... Ick. Okay, anyone have a version of Andale Mono with bold and italic variants? Or have a program that will synthesize such for me?<br>
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</div>No, no synthesizer, but here is a nice list of monospaced fonts: <a href="http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/" target="_blank">http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/</a><br>
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OS X (since 10.6 IIRC) comes with Menlo, a very nice Vera clone, with good antialiasing<br>
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