[Inkscape-devel] When is text "outlined" ?

In _renderItem in src/display/drawing-text.cpp there is a conditional section under

if (_drawing.outline()) {

that never seems to execute. Oddly, give its name, it appears that what it would do if it was ever activated, would be to draw the glyphs and then fill them. (Not stroke them). A breakpoint was placed in there and Inkscape was run for a while, making edits, rotating, scaling, stretching, changing the formatting, converting to paths, but nothing caused execution to enter that section.

I give up - what is the action that makes a text "outline" active?

Thanks,

David Mathog mathog@...1176... Manager, Sequence Analysis Facility, Biology Division, Caltech