Text Spacing

Scripting Issues
1

Are there any parameters for letter, word, and line spacing for a TextNode?

Or are those settings apart of the font itself? Possibly stored in the .ttf file?

2

These settings are part of the font and are specified within the ttf file, but you can override two of them at load time with loader.loadFont(spaceAdvance = xx, lineHeight = xx).

David

3

Thanks for the reply, David. I’m using a DynamicTextFont, though. Any luck that I can do a similar type thing with it? I don’t see anything mentioned in the documentation.

Thanks.

4

That’s what I mean. You use loader.loadFont() to get a DynamicTextFont. Pass two additional parameters for spaceAdvance and lineHeight to this function.

David

5

Ahhh, I didn’t realize loader.loadFont was creating a DyamicTextFont. I was creating the font by:

font = DynamicTextFont("my_font.ttf")
font.setPixelsPerUnit(60)
font.setPageSize(512,512)

to get a higher quality font at large text sizes. Thanks for your help.

6

You can do it that way too, but that doesn’t share the font data between multiple references. You might want that, of course, if you are fiddling with low-level parameters like this.

In this case you can adjust these two parameters via font.setSpaceAdvance() and font.setLineHeight(). These methods are inherited from the base class TextFont.

David