Help with Custom Font

[Tom]

This is a image of the problem. I'm using Square Kids font and using the font as a font when you type a + or - it puts a little rectangle on top or the bottom of the font to make it look like a block.
Everything works right except for the rectangle, it gets placed like a regular font. I guess it's called kerning, I have tried adding a two point path and then moving the path to the edge. I'm not having any luck.
The black font at the bottom of the picture shows what it was supposed to look like.

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[tim]

moving the path to the edge doesn't do it.
But you have to make the distance between point 1 and point 2 (which defines the width of your character).
So make that super small so that it doesn't take up and space and it'll be centered.
here I tried a 2 point path named "+.png" duplicated and renamed to "-.png" as well and made left point and right point very close to each other as to having a width of near zero (I guess you could make them zero by dragging one over top of each other).
but it seems to work fine.

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[tim]

this might seem like kerning but it's not since the rectangle is always going to be same position for all characters.
so you don't have to deal with kerning.
kerning is when you have like example MA you want the A to be regular spaced but when you have something VA you want the A to start earlier position because it's next to the V so what you do is your define a path/vector and name it VA.png and draw a width that is smaller than you would for the V.png path/vector...that way when it sees the combination VA it'll use the width defined in VA.png vector which is smaller than a typical width so it draws the V but then consider the V narrow so A starts soon hence appear closer to the V.

[Tom]

That was sure a struggle !
No fault of yours, I kept making little paths and nothing would happen.
Then I read your post again and it finally dawned on me to rename the paths and duplicate it like you said.
Worked like a charm.... Thanks

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[Issabella]

Tom, it's a very interesting project and you have known how to solve the problems. Congrats!

[Tom]

Thanks You Issabella.