> Life would be easier if they included a flag to make the line skip
> either at the end of a line or after each transfer.

If you had a way to define "transfer", that would help.  The only
"transfer" I see here is each write to ->font, and they *do* have the
facility to skip around after each transfer in that sense.

> The TEC thingie looks highly suspicious: [...]

Yes, I think TEC stands for Transform Engine Control or some such.

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