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Title: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: Will N. Dowd on February 04, 2025, 07:53:42 pm

If anyone knows how to make a half space between letters on MC32 please reply. From what I can find online the shift + space keyboard function just makes a regular space, and I'm looking for a half space if it's possible. Thank you!

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: zybex on February 05, 2025, 03:59:06 am

You can copy a unicode Thin Space or Hair Space from this site (there's a 'copy' button) and paste it on MC:
https://unicode-explorer.com/articles/space-characters

Visual example: https://jkorpela.fi/chars/spaces.html

You can also type any unicode character in Windows, but you first need to enable this feature with a registry key; then you can hold ALT and type +2009 to enter a thin space. Instructions:
https://unicode-explorer.com/articles/how-to-type-unicode-characters-in-windows

You can also enter it in Expressions with the Char() function, but you'll have to convert the character code to decimal. for U+2009, that would be Char(8201).

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: Will N. Dowd on February 05, 2025, 08:56:51 pm

Thanks for the detailed reply and instructions.

Tried the copy function on some of the codes first...all it did on all of them was put a square in where I wanted the space!

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: zybex on February 06, 2025, 01:05:26 am

That means the font you're using doesn't support those characters. Try changing the font. Try it first in Word or Excel.

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: Will N. Dowd on February 06, 2025, 08:19:03 am

Yes I assumed that was the case.

With so many fonts in MC32 can you name one or some that support all unicode codes?

I can't remember the default MC font anymore.

I'm using Franklin Gothic Bold 12 now.

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: zybex on February 06, 2025, 08:52:26 am

Fonts come with Windows, not with MC. The default MC font is Segoe UI 12.
Some other common fonts that support these chars are Aptos, Arial, Calibri, Cambria, Tahoma, Times New Roman, and possibly many others.

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: Will N. Dowd on February 06, 2025, 08:56:07 am

Yes I tried it and it works with Arial.

I'll keep trying it with other fonts until I find one it works with and looks the best.

Many thanks for all your links, help and very fast replies!

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: Will N. Dowd on February 06, 2025, 09:34:54 am

Settled on Ebrima Bold 12 since it looks very close to Franklin Gothic and displays the spacing properly (which Franklin Gothic doesn't.)

Thanks again!

Title: Re: How Do I Make A Half Space Between Letters?
Post by: Awesome Donkey on February 06, 2025, 11:35:56 am

Quote from: zybex on February 06, 2025, 08:52:26 am

The default MC font is Segoe UI 12.

That's good to know as I've long forgot. Might be a good one to add to the feature requests list to have a reset font option added somewhere to reset MC to the default font it uses instead of trying to guess or ask. :P