In the off topic forum there was recently mention of bordered characters.

It's a hack, but you can get somewhat of a bordered character effect in 
POV-Ray where you are using a font which offers different styles like 
regular, bold, italic and bolditalic.

You can place additional text{} objects with differing fonts slightly 
behind the regular style font.

Because of how fonts typically work they are often constrained 
vertically so it is a hack - but quick...

In the attached image.

   On the left LiberationMono-Regular.ttf with LiberationMono-Bold.ttf 
behind.

   In the middle LiberationMono-Regular.ttf with 
LiberationMono-Italic.ttf behind.

   On the right Roboto-Regular.ttf with Roboto-Bold.ttf behind. Showing 
that though this font isn't a mono-pitch font (it supports kerning) the 
trick / effect is the same per character because the kerning seems to 
often (always?) be the same across styles.

Bill P.

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