Re: Force font style in spumux

> As far as I can tell, FreeType cannot do this 
> <http://www.freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-base_interface.html>. 
> You have to fake it by geometric transformations like applying a skew to 
> all the glyph control points, or moving them apart to make the glyphs 
> fatter (or rendering the glyph multiple times at different overlapping 
> positions to produce the bolding effect). FreeType leaves it to code at 
> higher layers to implement this.

Well, text rendering is actually a bit more complicated than what it seems. :-)
Anyway, an answer even come without my search.
Yesterday I stumbled into gucharmap and it can render these `variations'.
Took a fast look into its source code and now I know libpango can do this using freetype itself.


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