[TxMt] Re: [TM2] Very minor feature request - to highlight current line

[Erik Neumann]

That article doesn't say which fonts have bold and italic variants.  Do any
of the free fonts mentioned have bold/italic?  On my system I have 4
mono-spaced fonts;  only Courier and Courier New have bold/italic variants.
 Andale Mono and Monoco are without variants.
--ErikN

On Wed, Mar 21, 2012 at 5:58 PM, Thomas Floeren <thomas.floeren at me.com>wrote:

>
> On 21.03.2012, at 14:31, Steve King wrote:
>
> > On 2012-03-20 21:49, Allan Odgaard wrote:
> >> TM 2.0 uses CoreText which doesn’t synthesize bold and italic when the
> font has no such variant.
> >>
> >> So you need to pick a font with a bold and italic variant for the theme
> styles to work. I have no plans of trying to synthesize these styles myself
> (not really feasible) and Apple seems content with not having CoreText do
> it (like the deprecated ATSUI did).
> >
> > Can't say I blame you, but... Ick.  Okay, anyone have a version of
> Andale Mono with bold and italic variants?  Or have a program that will
> synthesize such for me?
> >
>
> No, no synthesizer, but here is a nice list of monospaced fonts:
> http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/
>
> OS X (since 10.6 IIRC) comes with Menlo, a very nice Vera clone, with good
> antialiasing
>
> --
> Thomas
>
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