[reportlab-users] Styles and Character Spacing

[Robin Becker]

Tom Wiebe wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> New to ReportLab and loving it. Very nice piece of work. One thing I'm
> getting hung up on, however, and I'm sure it's quite simple and I'm
> just braindead.
> 
> How does one set kerning in a style sheet? I read the stuff in the
> manual about setCharSpace and setWordSpace but, need to get this into
> a Platypus style and can't seem to figure out how.
> 
> Any help greatly appreciated.
> 
> Tom Wiebe
.....
I'm pretty sure we don't do kerning. It's a matter of speed; our current line 
breaker is in python and that limits the amount of work it can do. So 
kerning/hyphenation gets left off. Effectively we are working with "words" and 
kerning needs glyph examination which would be a big slowdown.

There is some C code that could be used to do this in an extension, but it needs 
some work to get it in shape for our purposes.
-- 
Robin Becker