[mythtv-users] teletext spacing ?

[Mark Kendall]

On 21 Nov 2010, at 02:02, John <reidjr at lineone.net> wrote:

> I am using "analogue" style teletext on dutch satellite tv for the subtitles (888).
> 
> I am using Mythbuntu 0.24-fixes, and although everything works, the text is really hard to read. The problem is:
> 
> Instead of looking like this the :  T h e   T e l e t e x t   l o o k s   l i k e   t h i s !
> 
> It is worse than monospaced font, its as if there is an extra space between every character. It happens on all my frontends, and with all fonts I've tried. Digital text / subtitles are fine.

That's because there IS an extra space between each character! Teletext uses fixed sized/spaced characters and hence there is no flexibility for enlarging captions. Broadcasters work around this by using the double height character code but clearly this doesn't increase the width. Rather than having horizontally squashed text, the norm seems to be to insert extra spaces to stretch the text.

Regards
Mark