Ability to autogenerate bold / italic / bold italic font variants #15695
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Feature request
Issues that request the addition or enhancement of a feature
Low priority
@ Script API
Problem
Currently, our font engine expects separate font files for all four variants: regular, bold, italic, bold and italic for every style (currently just the mono and non-mono font).
This makes it harder to set up fonts and might be considered wasteful for media-provided fonts.
Solutions
Use FreeType outline processing API methods to autogenerate these: https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/reference/ft2-outline_processing.html
Alternatives
Do nothing. This is not very high priority.
Additional context
A friend of mine inquired me about this
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