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Is there a way to make a variable width font behave like a fixed width font in TLF?

Example of variable width:
The quick grey fox jumped over the lazy dog.

Example of fixed width: 

The quick grey fox jumped over the lazy dog

Notice how close the characters are to each other in the word "quick" and "grey" in each example.

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Is this what you want to achieve?

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(Upper font is Verdana and lower Tahoma)

The only way I see is to put every character into separate SpanElement when inserting (override insertText method of EditManager class), check it's AtomBounds on UpdateCompleteEvent and apply tracking or padding to the SpanElement depending on widths of these bounds.

EDIT: I just had a problem and tracking property saved me. This somehow reminded me this question, where I used kerning, while I actually had the tracking in mind. equal tracking for all atoms should do the trick.

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