AE: Parenting text styles doesn't include character width?

Question

So I have this expression in one of my projects:

style = comp("Templates").layer("First Line Second Line").text.sourceText.style

And I noticed that it seems to capture everything except the character widths. Is that a bug or is there some additional step required to bring that property over?

Airweb_AE · Answer

It's normal using style object you have access to the first character style of your string.

Font
Font Size
Faux Bold
Faux Italics
All Caps
Small Caps
Tracking
Leading
Auto Leading
Baseline Shift
Fill (enable/disable)
Fill Color
Stroke (enable/disable)
Stroke Color
Stroke Width

You can get the width of your string using sourceRectAtTime()

sourceRectAtTime(t = time, includeExtents = false)

Return type: JavaScript object with four attributes: [top, left, width, height]. Extents apply only to shape layers, increasing the size of the layer bounds as necessary, and paragraph text layers (After Effects 15.1 and later), where it returns the bounds of the paragraph box. Example:

myTextLayer.sourceRectAtTime().width

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