I've read through the very interesting thread <https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1617...

rocketraman

10/03/2022, 1:48 PM

I've read through the very interesting thread https://kotlinlang.slack.com/archives/CJLTWPH7S/p1617664367220300. I'm using the experimental text UI and have implemented the suggestions of explicitly setting

includeFontPadding = false

and

lineHeightStyle

(the former does help a bit, the latter makes no difference, probably because my text is a single line), however I still get a lot of padding above and below my text. Is there a way to make that space smaller?

Siyamed

10/03/2022, 2:03 PM

I wonder if you mean the empty space below the text 100 as padding? If so that doesn't seem to be padding but the bounds of letters. If what you need is to completely remove all empty space and have a boundary that fits '100' exactly, there isn't a way of doing it in Text.

rocketraman

10/03/2022, 2:59 PM

Yes, the empty space below, as well as above. You're saying that space is part of the font to handle things like ascenders and descenders? What is the best workaround? The text is dynamic so I can't simply create an SVG from Inkscape or anything like that.

Halil Ozercan

10/03/2022, 3:13 PM

not recommended but hail mary solution could be to draw the text on a bitmap (major performance drawback) and crop dead rows(all pixels unaltered) from bottom and top

Siyamed

10/03/2022, 7:31 PM

If you know that they wi always be numbers, qnd if you know the font will not have descenders than maybe you can align the top of the bottom component to the baseline of the numbers. That might be one way.

Siyamed

10/03/2022, 7:32 PM

I don't think we have get text bounds in TextLayoutProxy for you to get the bounds of the area that has text (and no empty space)

Siyamed

10/03/2022, 7:33 PM

I used to call this as tight text bounds that can be passed in Text as argument or in TextStyle but it isnt implemented yet

rocketraman

10/03/2022, 7:34 PM

Thank you. Is there a public issue I can track for that feature?

Siyamed

10/03/2022, 7:35 PM

One comment I found is here: https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/206039942#comment6