I was writing some freehand text and wanted an italic effect.
Simply using the 'Skew-angle of selection' input box solved this problem.
It produces the exact same italic skew as the 'italic' text button but you can of course skew it to both left and right to any degree.
You can also add the italic to text etc. which have been modified too much for the 'italic' text button to be of any use.
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