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Is "double-lowercase-L" a ligature (Computer Modern Italic)?
Consider the following MWE:
\documentclass{minimal}
\begin{document}
Which kerning do you prefer?
\bigskip
\emph{well willow wallow wellington} %
\verb+ <--- Version 1, default kerning+
\...
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Lato font not separating letters ft and ti
I am using the Lato font for a document, but whenever the letters "ft" and "ti" are next to eachother, this font cannot separate the characters. When doing a copy-paste of the word ...
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Discretionary hyphen destroys kerning and ligature
Consider the following example (plain TeX format):
VA fi\par
V\-A f\-i
\bye
I tried TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, and LuaTeX, but the second line looks the same as the first line only when using LuaTeX. My ...
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Forcing a ligature in "lowercase" small caps
Adobe Garamond Pro has a very nice swash Q ligature, but it only works for uppercase Q. Since "lowercase" small caps are still based on the uppercase letters, I would like to use this Q for all small ...
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How can I add extra kerning around -- (en-dash) in XeTeX
Is there a way to define some extra kerning around the en-dash – (Unicode) or -- (TeX ligature), when it is surrounded by digits in XeTeX? For – I can use \XeTeXinterchartoks, but this doesn’t work ...
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Properly breaking up ligatures using selnolig / LuaLaTeX
Currently I use the selnolig package together with LuaLaTeX to automatically break up ligatures. This works quite well regarding the fact that ligatures get broken up at the right places. Note however,...
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\@ifnextchar breaks kerning when expanded
I've defined a macro for an initialism (abbreviation) with periods, making sure that an end-of-sentence period is not printed twice: \gp prints "G.P." and \gp. prints "G.P." Here's an M.W.E.:
\...
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Kerning and ligatures in upright math font with unicode-math
How can I get the kerning and ligatures of text mode in an upright math font with the unicode-math package loaded?
1. Without unicode-math
Code:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
affinity\...
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Kerning and ligatures in TeX without TeX
I am trying to get the same output as in this answer by topskip (an extended version with comments is presented in the TeX without TeX article). I am getting a paragraph consisting of 6 lines with ...
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Generating ligature from the encoding file
I have an encoding file with some tex encoding, I have to use the ligature and kerning instruction for the encoding to make a replacement two char into a single ligature. It looks like the following:
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Disabling ligatures also disables kerning
I am using Adobe Minion Pro (mostly because of its maths support), but I don't want to use the 'Th' ligature. This decision is based on guidance from Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style.
I ...
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setting kerning for a glyph and a ligature
How can one specify in PL-file the kerning for a glyph and a ligature (say, digit and en-dash) except for setting it for the first part of the ligature (which I would like to avoid)?
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Differences regarding kerning and ligaturing when using the MacTex2013 and MacTeX2014 versions of LuaLaTeX with .ttc fonts
This posting is a follow-up to the postings Can't generate ligatures with LuaLaTeX under MacTeX2014 and MacTeX2015 when using certain fonts and LuaLaTeX, fontspec, .ttc fonts and kerning (Optima on ...
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Turning off TeXnical enhancements
I want to create a table for comparing TeX's typography with that of (approximated) other document solutions. I'd like to turn off all TeXnical enhancements for a single column of text—no ligatures, ...
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A ligature for she/he
A Compulsory Edit : I'm using this "s/he" thing quite a few times in the thesis. I've noticed that ⚧ (transgender unicode symbol) is even in the Unicode list, so I thought this might be a nice ...
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