Questions tagged [kerning]
{kerning} is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.
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How to make hyphen not be left aligned in ConTeXt in Vietnamese?
I have a weird issue regarding hyphen. When I write using hyphens in Vietnamese, the hyphen sometimes is left-aligned. Changing fonts replaces the hyphens that are error but not remove them completely....
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How to format multi-letter subscripts in math mode?
I have a document whose main font is a sans serif font (Arial if you must know), but whose math mode uses a serif font. They look quite different.
So far, my documents which don't switch looks like ...
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Punctuation kerning with luatexja and Simplified Chinese Script
I'm dissatisfied with the results of how babel renders CJK scripts (it's hard to get protrusion and punctuation kerning looking nice and lines can break before punctuation—some of these issues can be ...
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Adding \kern to Thai language in babel breaks line breaking
If I add a \kern in Thai text, it seems to break line breaking. (Disclaimer: I don't read or write Thai.)
How can I fix this?
(I'm using \kern to add a little bit of unbreakable space, so happy with ...
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How to manually kern the first character in enumerate to imitate microtype?
This \kern does not move the quotation mark to the left. What am I doing wrong?
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item \kern-0.2em``Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...
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UrlFont and kerning
How to set the UrlFont in a way that the kerning is correct?
\documentclass[10pt,twoside]{scrbook}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[hyphens]{xurl}
\def\UrlFont{\itshape}
\usepackage[colorlinks,...
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Add spaces between letters of a word
In xelatex or lualatex, how can I get pararaphs to stretch words with tiny spaces within words as the last resort of typesetting? It seems that everyone just wants tiny little hspace of fixed size ...
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The horizontal gap/kern before the comma is too large with unicode-math
The following minimal example is stripped down from the sentence, “Let (𝑇, ≤) be a poset.”
Feeding lualatex or xelatex with
\documentclass{standalone}
%\usepackage[math-style=ISO]{unicode-math}
\...
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How can I have fnpct kern \cite superscripts like it kerns \footnote?
fnpct seems to do an excellent job adjusting the kerning between periods/commas and footnote symbols. This AdaptNote command does switch positions with interpunction, but does no kerning. Can I use ...
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wider overall kerning for emphasis [duplicate]
Some older texts use wider kerning to emphasise text (see picture). I would like to mimic that in LaTeX. Is it possible to set up an environment (like \bf or \em) that does this?
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How to loop through ligtable in Metafont?
In roman.mf the kerning is defined for the Computer Modern Roman fonts.
I would like to write the ligtable definitions more efficiently but everything I try is wrong:
% With macro
def group_kerning(...
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How to reduce white space inside “𝑌.” automatically?
Feeding
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
%\usepackage[slantedGreek,subscriptcorrection]{newtx}% this is what I use with many of other packages in a non-minimal example.
%% Text skips with ...
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How to achieve consistent spacing in `derivative`s?
When compiling:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{derivative}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\[\pdv{P}{r}\]
\[\pdv{T}{r}\]
\[\pdv{X}{r}\]
\end{document}
one gets:
where it is clear ...
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Why does my TexMaker output have this terrible kerning?
I am writing a research article using TexMaker. The article uses the following packages as preamble:
\ifx\directlua\undefined\ifx\XeTeXcharclass\undefined
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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Why is the kerning of italic "Ex-Vivo" messed up?
When typesetting "Ex-Vivo" in italic, there is large apparent spacing between the dash and the V. Does this mean that my LaTeX setup is misconfigured, or am I expected to set the kerning ...
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