On 19/12/2005, at 14:52, Jeffrey E. Forcier wrote:
Some of us have toyed with it, we've never actually come up with a proper solution.
Well, that's a bummer, isn't it. You haven't found any good fonts which mitigate the problem? Like I said, Courier does seem to get around it, the only problem being that it's serif.
I think Michael Sheets tested a number of Vera Sans Mono derivatives, but they all showed the problem.
The bug is pretty weird -- I can actually cd to ~/Library/Fonts and gzip my Bitstream Vera Sans Mono font, then gunzip it, go back to TM, and suddenly I have beautiful (correct) bolding (when text is redrawn), and it makes a huge visual difference!
For this reason alone, I'm likely going to switch to using the Cocoa font rendering stuff in some future (long term) version, since these do not show the problem (AFAIK). Unfortunately they can't really synthesize bold for fonts which lack it (like Monaco), which is also quite a loss, as that's the default font.