How do I embed fonts in TextArea?

Question

I was going to use a TextField with a UIScrollBar but godaddy disables UIScrollBar so I'm using a TextArea for my output.  So far I'm able to disable text input, load htmlText and use the TextFormat class but I can't figure how to embed a font in it.  Any ideas?
Here's what I'm using now:
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.font = "Bitstream Vera Sans";
myFormat.size = 14;
myFormat.leading = 2.5;
externalLoad.load(externalReq);
externalLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, textReady);
function textReady(event:Event):void {
     bioText.setStyle("textFormat", myFormat);
    bioText.htmlText = event.target.data;

Answer 1

I created this font symbol: http://www.jimslounge.com/Font1.jpg
and chenged my code:
import fl.controls.*;
var myFont:Font1 = new Font1();
var externalReq:URLRequest = new URLRequest("bio.txt");
var externalLoad:URLLoader = new URLLoader();
var myFormat:TextFormat = new TextFormat();
myFormat.font = myFont.Font1;
myFormat.size = 14;
myFormat.leading = 2.5;
bioText.setStyle("textFormat", myFormat);
bioText.setStyle("embedFont", true);
//    bioText.textField.embedFonts = true;
bioText.textField.alpha=0.5;
externalLoad.load(externalReq);
externalLoad.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, textReady);
function textReady(event:Event):void {
    bioText.htmlText = event.target.data;
I've tried both the options for embedding you see in the code and in both cases it dosen't even apply the font let alone embed.