minted: Force comments to be displayed in a more console-like font

Question

In minted's default style, as well as a few others (emacs for instance), comments and other stuff like C preprocessor commands show up in a very un-code-like italic font, as shown in the 2 examples below.

I'm using this environment:

\newminted[cpp]{cpp}{frame=lines,framesep=2mm}

How could I change the font to a more console-like one? I tried playing with the fontfamily or fontseries minted options, but I didn't seem to get anywhere with that (I don't know what values to give to them aside from the ones that minted.pdf states they support, and even those seem to either not do anything or break the code completely).

My configuration is Mac OS X Lion, using Latexian as editor, and latest TexLive from MacPorts - versions shown below.

texlive-latex @23089_0+doc
texlive-bin @2011_3+motif+x11

Answer 1

Two things:

1. the font is “console-like” (that is, monospaced); it just happens to be also italic – which, by the way, is a completely valid formatting style and not that unusual (I usually use such a styling).

2. The italic formatting for comments is supplied by the Pygments style sheet, which supersedes the general font setting (since it’s more specific). In order to change it, you need to create and register an own stylesheet.