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Tagged with kerning typography
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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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Acro Package Bug with Kerning
I've observed that the acro package bugs out the kerning. It makes the kerning pair apply incorrectly after the acronym. In my MWE, the second word in each pair has incorrect kerning. I've added an ...
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Kerning against space, which model is the most suitable one?
Many professional fonts contain kerning instructions between the space (U+0020, the character) and other characters. These kerns help the pages achieve a more balanced typographical colour. For ...
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How to extend (or kern) a subtitle to the text width?
I have a subtitle that is almost as large as the text width. For aesthetical purposes, I would like to strech it a bit so it covers the whole text width, and be more harmonious with the picture below ...
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Globally define kerning of math letter
Is it possible to have a kerning reconfiguration in the preamble to allow a small amount of whitespace for specific letters.
In this example, I would want right space to the right of g and f when ...
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Imitate poster typography
So I am trying to recreate the following poster (or something similar)
My problem is obtaining the right typography and spacing. In particular I am having problems finding a good way to avoid hyphens....
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Kerning in italic contractions when using EB Garamond
I'm using EB Garamond to typeset some text and find that the kerning in italic contractions can be a bit generous for my taste. Consider this MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{ebgaramond-maths}...
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Weird formatting in a smaller created empty set symbol
A while back I created my own sort of emptyset symbol because the "not equal" slash didn't line up and it annoyed me. So I defined my own emptyset via \DeclareMathOperator{\vempty}{{\centernot{\Circle}...
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XeLaTeX produces wrong ellipsis
Consider this MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\textellipsis\ /
\ldots\ /
… /
...
\end{document}
With pdfLaTeX, I get this result:
While XeLaTeX produces this:
The kerning is ...
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When (and why) to use manual kerning for mathematical content?
I recently asked here, a question about the choice of OpenType Unicode fonts for my PhD thesis. After considering the comments and answers to the question, I decided to use Libertinus for both text ...
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Kerning against word space in LuaTeX
AFAIK word space in TeX work more or less like a glue instead of a real character. So it is not possible to kern a character with the space, e.g., to make the pair such as f<space>T to stay ...
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Remove space in front of simple question mark in: (?)
Following, french typographic rules, LaTeX inserts a space in front of a question mark ?. No problem.
However, for the following sequence, (?), LaTeX sets a space in front of the question mark and is ...
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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 to center the higher glyph(s) in a `\stackrel` or stretch the lower glyph?
I currently am using a relation
\newcommand{\Lsense}{\stackrel{\mathbb{L}^1}{=}}
but unfortunately, the \mathbb{L}^1 is not nicely centred over the = symbol.
I read some other answers that involve ...
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Typeset old Spanish abbreviation: center ending over period
For a modern edition of music from the seventeenth century Spanish empire, I need to typeset certain antiquated abbreviations in the manuscript sources. In this convention, the middle part of the word ...
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