Text Stroke as Brush has gaps/spaces

[PJD]

Hi there. 

I'm trying to make the stroke around my text a brush stroke. In this example i have the letter O. This is the original stroke:

Now, when i apply a brush stroke and pick something from the chalks and pastels brush set.. i get this:

And for most letters i choose, i always get the gap between what (i think) is the start and end of the stroke. 

Whatever option i click in the stroke pane, or the brush settings.. i can't for the life of me get the stroke to close.. i always get these gaps. 

I have to do this quite a lot, so i'd prefer a dynamic solution to work if possible, rather than having to convert stroke to curves and adjusting manually if possible.. i would think what i'm trying to achieve should be simple and possible.. but i need a little help here on this one. 

Many thanks in advance for your help. 

Phill 

(affinity designer 1.7.3 on mac os)

[GarryP]

I’m fairly sure that this is due to the brush you are using.
If the brush has a head and tail (highlighted in red in the attached image) that don’t ‘join up’ then you will see a gap where the vectors within the font glyph start and end. I believe this is expected behaviour and there may be nothing you can do, other than, perhaps, using a different brush.

I don't use this sort of brush much so someone else might be able to advise better.

[firstdefence]

1. Draw the circle
2. Select a brush stroke and apply it
3. Convert to curves
4. Select the Node tool (A)
5. Select the node between the gap and Break the curve.

The gap will now close.

[PJD]

thanks very much for the responses.. as above, converting to curves and breaking did the trick.. 

believe it or not, i had got as far as converting to curves and tried joining at the red nodes.. didn't occur to me to break it haha.. 

this is a great solution for me for now, though it's a little more manual than i'd like over the longer term.. how can i check if this is already in the feature request list? i couldn't find any other posts relating to this issue and feel it would be a nice option to be able to keep the text as text and a textured stroke closing without have to lose that editability would be cool no?