Setting Android Character Width
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You can control the height of a text character, drawn into the canvas, with setTextSize().  For example, if you want text of height 8 pixels, you would write:

    mPaint.setTextSize(8);

This works fairly well.  However, I cannot seem to find a way to set the width.  Hence a 8x12 pixel character looks exactly the same as an 12x12 character.  I am using monospace font and want to carefully control the size of each character in a canvas.

Any ideas on how to set character width in pixels?