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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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
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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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Hyperlink in math mode with correct spacing for flexible use with subscripts and superscripts
I want to use hyperlinks in math mode without changing the spacing or kerning. I.e., I want to define a command \mathhyperref similar to Correct kerning of hyperlinks in math mode but more flexible (I ...
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(Staircase) Kerning in display math
Simple problem: spacing in math mode can often be awkward, especially with large fences and super- or sub- scripts.
Usually, this amounts to exponents being too far from the parenthesized expression, ...
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Why are these sentences in Libertine so cramped and what can I do about it?
Recently I was writing a document in LaTeX using Linux Libertine. Overall I love this font, but I found a strange case of italicized text where there is almost no space between the word of and a ...
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Palatino kerning issue
There are a number of digital versions of Palatino: Palatino LT Pro, Book Antiqua, TeX Gyre Pagella, Domitian and FPL Neu. In a number of these (which include the version I am using) there is a ...
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How to apply glue in addition to the standard kern of the font?
Continuing How to add or remove space in math mode with 50% stretching and shrinking? and feeding
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
%% Math skips with glue being half of the modulus of the ...
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Horizontal space before spanning left bracket
All is in the title: I want to get rid of this horizontal space that comes before a \left[ square bracket spanning multiple rows. See MWE and picture.
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\documentclass[12pt,a4paper,twoside,openright]...
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opentype math font kern
The original Computer Modern Math Italic font has a modest amount of kerning listed in its TFM metrics (largely for punctuation, but also for some exceptions like lower case d).
But when I use Latin ...
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Bad kerning in \emph{Kerning}. How to improve?
When writing about Kerning, the word "Kerning" itself is a bad example, esp. when emphasised. Is there a way to improve the kerning between "K" and "e" once for all in a ...
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How to typeset compound math letters as in mcCullagh and Nelder?
The following is taken from McCullagh and Nelder's Generalized Linear Models (1989), page 54:
How could I typeset the "compound symbols" $\alpha\beta$ and $uv$ with the letters squished ...
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Bad horizontal alignment in tabularray or tabularx
The second column is not properly aligned to the left in both tabularry and tabularx environments
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\documentclass[10pt, a4paper, parskip=half]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{...
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How to redefine the \partial command to adjust the kerning (as suggested by Michael Spivak)?
Michael Spivak talked about this issue in his Math Font Quiz:
(Original article:
https://tug.org/pracjourn/2006-3/distract/mathquizAnswers.pdf)
In Latin Modern (and in Computer Modern Unicode as ...
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Typesetting + sign as if a letter
In Baxter's transcription of Middle Chinese, there is an ASCII-friendly version, which uses only te 26 Latin letters as well as a + sign (standing for ɨ). Assume I wish to typeset specifically this ...
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Kerning with Lualatex
This is a recurring topic, but I haven't found a satisfactory and up-to-date answer. I apologize for any redundancy.
I'd like to use Hoefler Text within Linux/Tex Live. I installed the font as a ...
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