How to modify the style property of a font on Windows?

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Note that this question continues from Is it possible to coax Visual Studio 2008 into using italics for comments?

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Answer 1

I did the italics-as-bold trick on Consolas back in July 2007 and posted a screenshot of it on my blog.

I used FontLab which does a great job but a custom tool to copy and set the header would be the best bet as you can't modify and redistribute Consolas and FontLab costs $699.

If you want to go down the FontLab route the open up the regular and italic versions and go into the File > Font Info... menu option and use the Names and Copyright section.

In there set them both fonts Family Name to a new name then flip the checkboxes on the italic version to indicate bold instead of italic and select Normal from the Weight list box and Italic in the Style Name list box.

Save and install :)

[)amien