[XeTeX] Fake Italic

[Jonathan Kew]

On 4 Sep 2008, at 4:19 AM, Alastair M. Paterson wrote:

> Hi!
>
> I have implemented the following:
>
> \def\bold{"#1/B:script=#2;#3;mapping=#4;embolden=3;letterspace=3"}
>
> to artificially produce bold text (embolden, letterspace parameters)
> when there is not a bold font available.
>
> Is there something similar that can be done to produce italic text?

Yes, there's a "slant" parameter you can use to get oblique glyphs.  
Somewhere around slant=0.2 is probably reasonable.

JK