
After you've read through this article you'll probably know why you didn't already know how to manually kern characters or set the baseline for them. The problem I address in this article is because the discoverability of the functions and features in Inkscape is virtually non-existent. At the time of writing, the most current version of Inkscape is 0.43 and later versions should exhibit the features I'm presenting here.

I used Inkscape even before the project, or fork, was started, when the main codebase was still called Sodipodi. I wrote this article because I wondered for a while why Inkscape apparently wouldn't let me make inline text and font changes to text objects in my drawings. Inkscape Text Tricks Introduction Background
