From d11c77aca5faa4cef39d1ede50f1664f5524168c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qua-non <akshayaurora@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2012 19:35:58 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] fix markup positioning incase of glyphs with kerning

---
 kivy/core/text/markup.py | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kivy/core/text/markup.py b/kivy/core/text/markup.py
index 4d2e586a1..f8f6c5a73 100644
--- a/kivy/core/text/markup.py
+++ b/kivy/core/text/markup.py
@@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ class MarkupLabel(MarkupLabelBase):
             # (extract all extents of the part,
             # sum the width, and get the maximum height)
             pg = [cache[g] for g in part]
-            pw = sum([g[0] for g in pg])
+            #pw = sum([g[0] for g in pg])
+            pw = get_extents(part)[0]
             ph = max([g[1] for g in pg])
 
             options = copy(options)

From aeb57e5614c1f6e8e23534b0d9ba579c78a7e025 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Qua-non <akshayaurora@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2012 12:22:51 +0530
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] add note about kerning in comment

---
 kivy/core/text/markup.py | 4 ++--
 kivy/data/style.kv       | 4 ++--
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kivy/core/text/markup.py b/kivy/core/text/markup.py
index f8f6c5a73..6cdf612f8 100644
--- a/kivy/core/text/markup.py
+++ b/kivy/core/text/markup.py
@@ -226,9 +226,9 @@ class MarkupLabel(MarkupLabelBase):
 
             # calculate the size of the part
             # (extract all extents of the part,
-            # sum the width, and get the maximum height)
+            # calculate width through extents due to kerning
+            # and get the maximum height)
             pg = [cache[g] for g in part]
-            #pw = sum([g[0] for g in pg])
             pw = get_extents(part)[0]
             ph = max([g[1] for g in pg])
 
diff --git a/kivy/data/style.kv b/kivy/data/style.kv
index 74d8b2184..4b527e21c 100644
--- a/kivy/data/style.kv
+++ b/kivy/data/style.kv
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@
     padding_y: 6
     canvas.before:
         Color:
-            rgb: self.background_color
+            rgba: self.background_color
         BorderImage:
             border: (16, 16, 16, 16)
             pos: self.pos
@@ -105,7 +105,7 @@
             pos: map(int, self.cursor_pos)
             size: 1, -self.line_height
         Color:
-            rgb: self.foreground_color
+            rgba: self.foreground_color
 
 <TextInputCutCopyPaste>:
     size_hint: None, None