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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Adjust kerning for garamond math
I would like to adjust the kerning between some glyphs, since imo e.g. '(' and 'f' are typeset way too close.
% !TEX program = lualatex
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{...
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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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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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How to format multi-letter subscripts in math mode?
I have a document whose main font is a sans serif font (Arial if you must know), but whose math mode uses a serif font. They look quite different.
So far, my documents which don't switch looks like ...
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Punctuation kerning with luatexja and Simplified Chinese Script
I'm dissatisfied with the results of how babel renders CJK scripts (it's hard to get protrusion and punctuation kerning looking nice and lines can break before punctuation—some of these issues can be ...
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Adding \kern to Thai language in babel breaks line breaking
If I add a \kern in Thai text, it seems to break line breaking. (Disclaimer: I don't read or write Thai.)
How can I fix this?
(I'm using \kern to add a little bit of unbreakable space, so happy with ...
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How to manually kern the first character in enumerate to imitate microtype?
This \kern does not move the quotation mark to the left. What am I doing wrong?
\documentclass{memoir}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
\item \kern-0.2em``Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur ...
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UrlFont and kerning
How to set the UrlFont in a way that the kerning is correct?
\documentclass[10pt,twoside]{scrbook}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[hyphens]{xurl}
\def\UrlFont{\itshape}
\usepackage[colorlinks,...
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Add spaces between letters of a word
In xelatex or lualatex, how can I get pararaphs to stretch words with tiny spaces within words as the last resort of typesetting? It seems that everyone just wants tiny little hspace of fixed size ...
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The horizontal gap/kern before the comma is too large with unicode-math
The following minimal example is stripped down from the sentence, “Let (𝑇, ≤) be a poset.”
Feeding lualatex or xelatex with
\documentclass{standalone}
%\usepackage[math-style=ISO]{unicode-math}
\...
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How can I have fnpct kern \cite superscripts like it kerns \footnote?
fnpct seems to do an excellent job adjusting the kerning between periods/commas and footnote symbols. This AdaptNote command does switch positions with interpunction, but does no kerning. Can I use ...
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wider overall kerning for emphasis [duplicate]
Some older texts use wider kerning to emphasise text (see picture). I would like to mimic that in LaTeX. Is it possible to set up an environment (like \bf or \em) that does this?
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How to loop through ligtable in Metafont?
In roman.mf the kerning is defined for the Computer Modern Roman fonts.
I would like to write the ligtable definitions more efficiently but everything I try is wrong:
% With macro
def group_kerning(...
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How to reduce white space inside “𝑌.” automatically?
Feeding
\documentclass{article}
\pagestyle{empty}
%\usepackage[slantedGreek,subscriptcorrection]{newtx}% this is what I use with many of other packages in a non-minimal example.
%% Text skips with ...
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How to achieve consistent spacing in `derivative`s?
When compiling:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{derivative}
\begin{document}
\noindent
\[\pdv{P}{r}\]
\[\pdv{T}{r}\]
\[\pdv{X}{r}\]
\end{document}
one gets:
where it is clear ...
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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
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} ...
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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.
MWE
\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
MWE:
\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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