Altering DrawText character spacing

DrawText uses the font's default character spacing (is that called Kerning?). Anyway is there are way to alter the spacing by say 10%? Perhaps a setting in the DrawText module?

Otherwise I'll have to do this manuall i.e. draw a character then use TextLength to get the width of the char and add a % to it and then draw the next char. Could be a bit slow...

Thanks!