Possible to do optical character alignment?

Is it possible to do optical character alignment?
I am used to doing this in InDesign - wondering if there is a comparable feature in Pages.
See this article for explanation:
http://www.cambooth.net/archives/328

Hi Matthew,
Feature not available. Not surprising, considering the difference in price between Adobe Indesign and Pages.
With some work, you might be able to produce a similar effect manually, using a workaround patterned on the one described in that article.
Regards,
Barry

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