Ron Parker wrote:

> Mathematically, it's impossible to do in a general way.  Specifically, you
> can't create a curve that's parallel to an arbitrary cubic or quadratic curve.
> Since POV uses curves rather than decomposing them into lines (as elefont does)
> it can't be done without making some major (and ugly) changes in the way TTF
> objects work.

I must say that you sounded a bit more optimistic about this subject
that last time we held this discussion (12/16/99) but I will agree
that it is not a trivial feature to implement.

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