Re: [ft] Emboldening monospaced fonts

[Werner LEMBERG]

> There are some good looking programmer fonts without bold variant
> available [1].  Makes those fonts little inconvenient for code
> editors where bold is used as highlight.  I went for
> FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden, but it breaks the "monospaceness" of the
> font.  Is there a way to embolden the font without breaking the
> monospaced font?

Embolden the glyph but use the original advance width.  The glyph
outline should be shifted to the left to compensate for the increased
width:

  new_left_side_bearing = left_side_bearing
                          - (new_advance_width - advance_width) / 2

(or something like that).


    Werner