[TxMt] Proper Bold with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono

[Jonathan Ragan-Kelley]

Good to know.  I may have een the first to bring this up, many months
ago, and I do use light text on dark, but I've managed to scrape by by
simply having two slightly different versions of the base font (one in
which I edited the name of Roman to Regular or somesuch) which I swap
as VeraMono.ttf and VeraMono.ttf2.  It doesn't matter which is which,
I just periodically (about once/reboot, though not quite always, I
believe) swap them when I notice the problem.  Thankfully Quicksilver
makes this easy enough I haven't ever even gotten around to automating
it.  I'd still, of course, love to see a real fix in or around
whichever of Apple's subsystems is causing this problem.
-jrk

On 2/1/06, Allan Odgaard <throw-away-1 at macromates.com> wrote:
> 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.
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> One fix seems to be to run:
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>     sudo rm -rf /Library/Caches/com.apple.ATS
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> 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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