POV-Ray: Newsgroups: povray.general: Wanted: dealing with font style 'bold' and 'italics': Re: Wanted: dealing with font style 'bold' and 'italics'

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From: Warp
Date: 8 Dec 2007 00:26:38
Message: <475a2b0e@news.povray.org>

John VanSickle <evi### [at] hotmailcom> wrote:
> 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>
> }

  Technically speaking that's a slanted/oblique font, not an italic
(ie. cursive) font.
  (Although admittedly the difference between these two things can be
quite subtle to the layman.)

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                                                          - Warp

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