Leef_me wrote:
> Can someone suggest how to deal with font 'bold' and 'italics' ?
> 
> I have started working with fonts and haven't found an answer from the docs or
> searching the newsgroups.

Can't help you with bold, as that involves changing the basic shape of 
the text.

Doing italic text object in POV-Ray is easy:

text { ttf "arial.ttf","Some text",.1,0
   matrix <1,0,0, .1,1,0, 0,0,1, 0,0,0>
}

The matrix line italicizes the font.  The .1 setting slopes the text 
over to a 10% grade.  You can go to .2 if you want very obvious italics, 
but that's enough.

There is no way of telling POV-Ray that you want to apply whatever text 
style you're used to using from your word processor; you have to 
understand what actually happens to the shapes of the letters, and then 
apply that change by altering the model accordingly.

Regards,
John

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