[TxMt] Proper Bold with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Allan Odgaard
throw-away-1 at macromates.com
Wed Feb 1 15:15:43 UTC 2006
There has been some talk in the past about TextMate's undesired
tendency to use a software generated bold for the Bitstream Vera Sans
Mono font.
One fix seems to be to run:
sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS
Afterwards one will have to reboot the machine, but then the bold
shows up as drawn. And what a difference it makes:
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Though I don't know for how long this fix will work. And it will
still look incorrect when the bold text is light on a dark background.
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