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Is it possible to coax Visual Studio 2008 into using italics for comments?


I'm quite used to my IDE setup in Delphi 7, where I have my comments rendered in italics.

This doesn't appear to be possible in VS2008. There's only an option for bold font, not italics.

Is there some kind of registry hack or font magic I can perform to get it to work? The font I'm using is Consolas, if that makes a difference.

Edit: This is possible. See this answer for details.


Adam, as far as I can tell, you can't change the font name for just comments - only the colour, and boldness. If I'm wrong, please tell me!


Solution

  • If you have a font editor, you can change an italic font to pretend it's bold. Here's an example of it. (For VS 2005, but it should work all the same.)