[Interest] Modifying the font metrics ("leading" and "tracking") everywhere

[Ruth Ivimey-Cook]

Atlant Schmidt wrote:
>
>   I'd appreciate your help and especially an example!
>
It sounds to me as if your best bet is to create a derived version of 
the font file with characteristics better suited to you. The open source 
program fontforge is a good starting point for such things, and leading 
is a simple thing to change with it.

It might be possible to load the font into memory and modify the 
in-memory copy but I doubt very much that this will be quick or easy let 
alone portable.

You should be able to use CSS ( Qt style parameters ) to modify line 
spacing and so on; such things are bread-and-butter of CSS anyway. 
Overall Inter-character spacing changes are a part of CSS3 IIRC and Qt 
may not honour such things, though you may be lucky. Modifying kerning 
is harder, and probably best left for fontforge.

HTH
Ruth

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