Silverlight Character Spacing

Question

What is the easiest way to control message spacing, kerning or tracking in Silverlight?

Arial currently has large headlines that have too many spaces between letters.

thank

Answer 1

I don't know if this is the best solution, but it works fine for me:

SomeElement.Children.Add(LetterSpacing("Test", -3));

...

private Canvas LetterSpacing(string String, double Space)
    {
        Canvas kpr = new Canvas();
        char[] lters = String.ToCharArray();
        Label[] lbls = new Label[lters.Length];

        for (int i = 0; i < lters.Length; i++)
        {
            Label tmpLbl = new Label();
            lbls[i] = tmpLbl;
            kpr.Children.Add(lbls[i]);
            lbls[i].Content = lters[i];
            lbls[i].FontSize = 30;
            lbls[i].FontFamily = new FontFamily("Verdana");
        }

        Dispatcher.BeginInvoke(
            () =>
            {
                double leftPos = 0;
                for (int j = 0; j < lbls.Length; j++)
                {
                    Canvas.SetLeft(lbls[j], 0 + leftPos);
                    leftPos += (lbls[j].ActualWidth - (Space * -1));
                }
            });

        return kpr;
    }

Answer 2

I do not think it is supported by runtime. You can export the text as a path and use it.