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31 Jul 2024 02:22:24 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Wanted: dealing with font style 'bold' and 'italics'  
From: Nicolas Alvarez
Date: 7 Dec 2007 12:36:40
Message: <475984a8$1@news.povray.org>

> Nicolas Alvarez <nic### [at] gmailisthebestcom> wrote:
>> Bold and italics are on different .ttf files. For Arial, I have these files:
>>
>> arial.ttf //normal
>> arialbd.ttf //bold
>> ariali.ttf //italics
>> arialbi.ttf //bold and italics
> 
> Thanks Nicolas,
> 
> I tried to give all the details, I missed reporting that.
> 
> I understand that there are some fonts with separate files like these.
> The particular font I wanted to use, doesn't happen to do it this way.
> 

Then the particular font you want to use has no bold or italics, simple. 
Maybe some word processors *fake* it in a similar way to what Tim 
Attwood said; but POV-Ray definitely doesn't have that built-in.


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