QGraphicsTextItem - variable character spacing

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From some posts I found on the web (from like 2008) and from looking at the classes in the 4.8 sdk, it doesn't seem like you can easily change the spacing between each character in a QGraphicsTextItem. Is this still true?

I believe I saw one reference that said I would need to set up my own layout class. Guessing this would be a subclass of QAbstractTextDocumentLayout?

Am I just missing some class/method that now allows "easy" manipulation of individual character spacing on a QGraphicsTextItem?

Thanks in advance for any suggestions or direction.