Shearing will give you an oblique font, not italic, many fonts define their
italic version identically to their oblique version, but italics are often
quite script (handwriting) like - curvy.

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Ken Cecka <cec### [at] televarcom> wrote in article
<34c6c3a5.0@news.povray.org>...
| There's no option for the text object which causes it to be rendered in
| italics, but using a matrix transformation, you can shear the text
causing
| it to appear italicized.  For more information on shearing, check out
| http://www.erols.com/vansickl/matrix.htm .
| 
| Ken
| 
| Casey wrote in message <34C64735.54A4598A@isoa-vision.com>...
| >    Can you write a phrase in italics using a ttf.
| >
| 
| 
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