[ft] How can I render monospace text in any font?

[John Owen]

Given any typical font, not necessarily a monospace one, how can I
render text in a monospace style? I've tried messing around with
drawing the bitmaps of the glyphs individually, but I can never get
the x and y alignment between glyphs right. I'm using OpenGL and
python, but the answer should be adaptable to any graphics context or
language. I've also opened a question on SO if anyone wanted to use
that.

http://stackoverflow.com/q/26138577/1093155

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