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How to change space between all letters?
I want to change the default spacing between all letters in the document to be a little bigger. That is I want to be able to manually choose how far apart all letters should be. Should I change the ...
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How do I adjust kerning in my section macros
How do I insert \textls in my section macros to apply the kerning defined in my \microtype command?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[tracking = true, letterspace = 100]...
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LuaLaTeX and Microtype with cmbright -- spacing and kerning
I like the cmbright typeface, like what microtype does, and love the facilities LuaLaTeX can offer. However, microtype's kerning and spacing features are not compatible with LuaLaTeX. I definitely ...
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What does TeX do to make text more beautiful? (Answer: four things.)
This original question was: Are fonts rendered more beautifully with LaTeX than with other systems, such as Word?
The larger question really is: Beyond overall document layout, what specifically ...
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Kerning for subscripts of \sigma?
Is there any way to reduce the distance inside σ₀ and between \sigma and its subscript in general in the following setup automatically? That is, each time you type in \sigma_0 (or \sigma_1 etc.), you ...
user165772
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How to fix scrlayer-scrpage / microtype kerning issue?
I am experiencing a weird interaction between scrlayer-scrpage package from Koma Script and a custom microtype setting. I am using scrartcl class together with Minion Pro font and scrlayer-scrpage. I ...
user179585
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Unclarities about Microtype's default options
I delved deeper into the details of the microtype package to get the best results and perhaps not the safest results. Four things are still unclear after reading the manual, hence a post here.
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How can I improve the kerning of citation footnotes made with natbib?
I'm writing an article that requires the natbib package for citations, and I'm using the super and compress options. Right now I'm "manually" placing the citation outside of punctuation, as in
Hello ...
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Kerning of MinionPro footnotefigures with microtype
I am using the MinionPro package and with the option footnotefigures. When this option is active, special glyphs are used for footnotes, which look a bit thicker than normal numbers. However, the ...
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Automatic letterspacing of capitals
I have a very large text corpus that I am fine-tuning for typography among other things. From what I know, abbreviations, such as ACAB, need to be letterspaced. I have found somewhat convincing ...
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Kerning of Hyphens
I am currently working on something which requires me to have a single letter in math mode followed by a hyphen, e.g. $p$-center.
For the most letters, it looks fine. However, if I use $p$ or $\rho$, ...
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Microtype kerning won't work with quotationmarks
To be clear it is possible to get it working generally and I have got it working in a minimal document. However I just can't get it to work in my actual thesis. I did not succeed in creating a true ...
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Automatically reducing spacing before punctuation in math mode [duplicate]
It often happens that after a variable in math mode, some punctuation in text mode follows (both display and inline). Depending on what the variable letter was, the spacing between letter and ...
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Unwanted kerning inside em-dash when using microtype
I'm using microtype together with XCharter font. I have to add some space around en-dash and this works perfectly. Now I introduced some em-dashes with '---' but these are rendered by pdflatex as an ...
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Combine kerning, small caps, and tracking in luatex
As is known, luatex requires the fontspec option Renderer = Basic in order to display small caps when microtype's tracking = true is used.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[tracking = true]{...
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