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.

As always, thanks in advance.
Leef_me



I am using POV-Ray for the Microsoft Windows.
Other windows apps have the capability of scale, bold, italics, underline,
shadow.

I happen to be using the font as a pigment on a 'theater screen',
and 3d aspect of the pigment isn't an issue.

My fall-back position is to create an image using the desired font/bold and then
us that as the pigment. But I'd rather do it in POVRAY alone.


Here's my tweaked version from:
   http://tag.povray.org/povQandT/languageQandT.html#cylindricalrepeat



//start

//===========================================================================
camera { location -z*6 look_at 0 angle 35 }
light_source { <10, 20, -50>, 1 }

// create a box that extends between the 2 specified points
box {
  <-1, -1, 0>  // one corner position <X1 Y1 Z1>
  < 1,  1,  .1>  // other corner position <X2 Y2 Z2>

  pigment
  { object
    { text { ttf "crystal", "Hello", 1.1, 0 }
      // Note: Thickness must be larger than cylinder radius
      rgb 1, rgb x
    }

    translate -z/2      // prevent "artifact known as coincident surfaces"
                        // From: Samuel Benge
                        // Subject: Re: Simple 2D text on a cylinder's surface
                        // Date: 20 Oct 2007 23:55:41
                     // http://news.povray.org/471a957d%241%40news.povray.org

    scale <-.5, .5, 1>
    warp { planar }
    translate x*.6      // better handled with Text_Space or Text_Width
  }
  rotate y*145
}

plane { y, -1.001 pigment { checker rgb 1, rgb .5 } }


//=========================================================================

//end

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