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Fixup synthetic BoldItalic variants. #6

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Thanks to #5 Greybeard now has synthesized BoldItalic variants generated from the italic strikes using mkbold-mkitalic. Unfortunately, the algorithm does not take bounding boxes into account, so anywhere a thickened glyph would run over the edge (usually by a single pixel), it simply cuts off. This isn't too bad, but it's bothering me. I'm sure there's a way to expand the bounding boxes dynamically and to use the bdf analogue of kerning to account for it, but it requires some investigation and, likely, digging into the annals of old xfont utilities.

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