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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Wrong spacing with math mode inside sl in plain TeX
Here is a minimal example of a problem I encounter sometimes:
{\sl Let $\cal U$ be}
\bye
In the output U is much closer to "Let" than to "be".
Is there an equivalent to the italic ...
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Allow Line Breaking Without Affecting Kerning
I'm trying to get LaTeX to allow a line break after an ellipsis. The problem is that, when I type \allowbreak after \ldots, the kerning between the ellipsis and the next immediate character is messed ...
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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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Expanded Letter Space Kerning Algorithm Not Working with French Accents
Consider the code
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage{scalerel}
\usepackage{scalefnt}
% Spaceout Algorithm
\def\theLetterSpace{0.5pt}
\def\theWordSpace{1.5\LocalLetterSpace}
\...
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Italic maths in italic text, inconsistent spacing?
Consider the following example
\documentclass{article}
%\usepackage{lua-visual-debug}
\begin{document}
\Huge
\textit{I I $I$ I I} %\showlists
\end{document}
It produces five italic ...
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How can I consistently adjust kerning within and outside of subscripts?
I want to define a macro that shows an array access in a language like in C or Java.
My first try looked like this:
\newcommand{\accessI}[2]{#1\left[#2\right]}
\[
\accessI{a}{i}
\]
I didn't like this ...
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How do I define a macro that depends on the height of an argument?
I'd like to write a macro that surrounds an argument with two round parentheses which are correctly sized to the argument. Currently I'm using the following macro,
\newcommand{\inpl}[1]{{\left(\kern-....
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Reduce the space between letter "f" and subscript that follows for Asana-Math (unicode-math)
Following the second part of this answer, I'm trying to do the similar thing for Asana-Math: reducing the space between letter "f" and the subscript that follows. However, my modified ...
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Minor adjustment to math font kerning with unicode-math
I would like to use KpMath as my main math font, but also to use the letters and numbers from usual Palatino to match my main text. For this purpose, I replaced the letters and numbers from the font ...
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Excessive space after italicized abbreviation
I often encounter the appearance of excessive space after an italicized abbreviation. In the example below, the first block of text yields too much space between the italicized abbreviation 2 Clem. ...
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How to globally redefine kerning of \prime only when it encounters a left delimiter in math mode?
Here's my MWE:
% !TEX program = lualatex
\documentclass[preview,border={5mm 2.5mm 5mm 0mm},varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\usepackage[warnings-off={mathtools-colon,mathtools-overbracket}]...
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Kerning for German «Guillemets» automatically input by csquotes
Kindly consider this MWE:
%!TeX program = lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[shorthands=off,main=ngerman,english]{babel}
\usepackage{cochineal}
\usepackage[german = guillemets]{csquotes} ...
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Why does LaTeX neither break at nor hyphenate after a "user kern"?
When using the \kern command for user-defined kerns or the \, shorthand for small non-breaking spaces, this expands to a "userkern" node. At such nodes LaTeX doesn't break the line and the ...
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Is there a way to add italic correction at the end of inline math?
I would like to add italic correction at the end of inline math, depending on the italic correction of the last math character. Here is a MWE showing why I would like to have that:
%! TEX program = ...
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