[TxMt] Bolding and antialiasing (and possibly Markdown)

[Allan Odgaard]

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.