adjusting tracking or letter spacing of text?

From: Joseph (ILLicon_at_unchance.net)
Date: 02/19/04

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    Letters appear too close together in sans serif default font
    when displayed in a JTextComponent. I see that there is
    a field called advance in one of the classes in java.awt.font,
    which is described as controlling letter spacing (or tracking),
    but it is extremely unclear how this field can be set or
    how it then can be made to affect a JTextComponent. Ideally
    it seems as if there should be a way to call some
    method in the relevant Font object in order to produce an
    adjustment of this property of how the font is rendered
    (as well as related properties such as space between lines
    of text and so on). Perhaps there is a way to do this
    with TextLayout, though it seems like the amount of effort
    required to manipulate TextLayout objects is far out of
    proportion to the seemingly simple task I am trying to do.
    Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

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