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Re: Tab handling in text rendering and bbox calculation

 

D’oh.  I was thinking our stroke font was mono-spaced, but then why would we have to look up widths in the width-table.  I think my brain worked better years ago, but perhaps it’s just nostalgia…. ;)

> On 12 Nov 2019, at 12:35, Johannes Sprigode <jos@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> If that is so then I rest my case.
> Apart from that a change in the anti-aliasing settings
> as suggested by Jeff didn't have any influence at all.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> On 13/11/19 1:26 am, Seth Hillbrand wrote:
>> On 2019-11-12 03:57, Johannes Sprigode wrote:
>>> Howdy guys,
>>> 
>>> hate to burst your bubble. The tab/space issue appears consistent,
>>> however the actual character alignment kind of sucks. Lower case a, b
>>> etc. are only part of the equation. The big guys still seem to have
>>> some sway.
>>> 
>>> Screen shot attached.
>>> 
>>> Cheers
>> 
>> The characters are not monospaced.  So, you shouldn't expect the line
>> of characters to align with the tab characters.
>> 
>> The tab character is meant to align with other tabs.
>> 
>> -Seth
>> 
>> Seth Hillbrand
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