Need help formatting imageFonts

[vine]

I need help getting an imageFont to format correctly;

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The first line is how you'd organize your font so it can be read by Love, from what I understand of https://love2d.org/wiki/ImageFontFormat.
The second line shows how Love would render the font after a love.graphics.print('ABCDE')
The last line is how I'd like the font to be rendered.

How would I go about doing this, or is it even possible without some ridiculous workaround?

[bartbes]

It is, indeed, currently impossible to have a spacing of 0 with ImageFonts, I remember there being a ticket on the tracker, but I couldn't find it in the minute of searching I just did.

[Jasoco]

It is, indeed, currently impossible to have a spacing of 0 with ImageFonts, I remember there being a ticket on the tracker, but I couldn't find it in the minute of searching I just did.

Correction, in order to make it look like the last (Which is something I also want to be able to do) it would need a spacing of -1.

[Inny]

This might help:

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local font = love.graphics.newFont(...)
local offset = 1
function draw_text(x, y, str)
  for c in str:gmatch('.') do
    love.graphics.print(c, x, y)
    x = x + font:getWidth(c) - offset
  end
end

It needs tweaking to handle newlines and such.