[TxMt] Proper Bold with Bitstream Vera Sans Mono

[Allan Odgaard]

On 2/2/2006, at 15:09, Jonathan Ragan-Kelley wrote:

> 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 [...]

For me, if I do something with the font (e.g. gzip + gunzip) then it  
does fix the problem, but all glyphs which hadn't been loaded from  
the font at that time, will then show as blank for the rest of the  
session (i.e. until reboot).