How can I specify letter spacing or kerning, in a WPF TextBox?

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I tried Glyphs and FontStretch and couldn’t easily get the result I was looking for. I was able to come up with an approach that works for my purposes. Maybe it will work for others, as well.

<ItemsControl ItemsSource="{Binding SomeString}">
    <ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
        <ItemsPanelTemplate>
            <StackPanel Orientation="Horizontal" />
        </ItemsPanelTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemsPanel>
    <ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
        <DataTemplate>
            <TextBlock Text="{Binding}" 
                       Margin="0,0,5,0"/>
        </DataTemplate>
    </ItemsControl.ItemTemplate>
</ItemsControl>

I can bind to any string and don’t need to do any character width detection to set the spacing properly. The right margin is the space between the letters.

Example:

Kerning

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