Ron Parker wrote:
> 
> You can skew the text with a matrix, I suppose, but it won't really be
> italic, technically.  For underline or strikethrough, you'll have to
> create and position boxes appropriately.  For bold, the only thing I
> can offer is to create two copies of the string and offset them a bit
> horizontally so the vertical strokes get thicker, but of course that
> only works for fonts that already have fine horizontal strokes.  Arial,
> for example, will not look like Arial Bold if you thicken it horizontally.
> 

For bold you could also use a proximity pattern isosurface, probably
extremely slow.  Another possibility would be a heightfield where an
erosion filter was applied before.  

Christoph

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