Typographic white space?

micahmicah

Does DrawBot allow for utilizing whitespace characters such as em, en, or thin spaces?

frederik

You just have to use the proper unicode and the font should of course support it:


# a collection of space unicodes
spaces = [
    (0x0020, "normal space"),    
    (0x2000, "en space"),
    (0x2001, "em space"),
    (0x2008, "hair space"),
    (0x2009, "thin space"),
    (0x200B, "zero width space"),    
]

y = 20
fontSize(60)
# start loop over all spaces
for space, name in spaces:
    # draw the space as text
    # using the py3 f-string formatting!!!
    text(f"draw{chr(space)}bot\t\t({name})", (10, y))    
    y += 100

micahmicah

@frederik wonderful! Thank you!