Comments on: Italic syntax highlighting in Visual Studio 2005

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 18:29:41 +0000

I decided against after consulting with a few people but you can probably achieve a similar effect using FontForge or other font editing programs (just make sure they preserve hinting)

[)amien

By: Blorg

Blorg — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:47:32 +0000

Did you ever write that app? I've been mucking around with a hex editor and the TTF spec, but have only succeeded in screwing up my fonts royally so far :)

If there's no app, do you have any hints about which bits to flip?

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 08:58:35 +0000

Well the trick is to basically modify the italic version of the font to give it a new name and to present itself as bold.

I intend on putting together a simple app to do this to any installed font but in the mean time I did it by hand on my own Envy Code R font.

[)amien

By: steve

steve — Thu, 12 Jul 2007 00:38:30 +0000

I still use Vim as a general purpose text viewer / editor, even though I use VS for actually writing code. It's just very useful for quickly examining / altering patch files, scripts, XML, config files, sometimes hacking VS project files manually because it's faster than using a wizard / property page etc. I'm not a fan of trying to use VS for absolutely everything, I tend to pick and choose the best tool for each job.

By: Damien Guard

Damien Guard — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:53:59 +0000

It involves modifying files so I'm trying to put together a binary patcher as I obviously can't redistribute the files themselves.

[)amien

By: Tomas Restrepo

Tomas Restrepo — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 23:38:03 +0000

That looks pretty cool. Do you mind sharing what the trick was? :)

By: Rik Hemsley

Rik Hemsley — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 21:43:14 +0000

Well, you don't have to use Vim, you can use ViEmu in VS.NET.