Italics spacing issue

[EwanG]

OK, I'm trying to be "fancy" to make it easier to tell when you (or someone else) is thinking something rather than saying something. So for speech, I've been using normal text, and for "thoughts" I've been using italics. But I've been noticing that the spacing is a bit off for the italicized versions. Is that a known issue? Do I need to specify a particular font to use with italics? Or is there a better way to do what I'm trying to do?

Thanks,
Ewan

[PyTom]

Can you show an example of this? I think there might be a bit of weirdness where italic and normal text interact, but normal italic text _should_ work right.

You may also want to download an italic font, rather then using a normal font in italic mode.

[EwanG]

Attached an image showing what I'm talking about. Notice the spacing between the v and the e in "I've" on the second line. And between the w and the h in "what" on that line.

[PyTom]

Okay, this is because the kerning tables are probably a little off. You want an oblique font. I've attached DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf, and you'll want to add the following to your script to make it use it:

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init:
    $ config.font_replacement_map["DejaVuSans.ttf", False, True] = ("DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf", False, False)

This will use the proper font.

[EwanG]

Yup, that did the trick. Thanks!