Using the Termes font in a large dictionary project, the open parenthesis and lower case Roman j glyphs are often in contact, and my proofreader has asked me to fix the problem, which she calls a "crash". I've tried inserting a small space manually in these places, but I wonder if there's another solution. Italics are not involved, so I see that italic correction will not work, but perhaps there is something similar for inappropriate touching between ( and j?
The text is raggedright; I'd prefer not to make any substantial changes to the rest of the code.
Example:
\usepackage{tgtermes}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
...
to inlay (\tiny{~}\normalsize jewels
to inlay (jewels
...
\kern.1emwould probably be better than\tiny{~}\normalfont, however. – egreg Jun 26 '12 at 15:36\tinydoes not take an argument so(\tiny{~}\normalsize jwould be better written as({\tiny~}jbut better still would be something like(\kern0.1em jso it automatically adjusted to the current font size. The more automatic (but more involved) version would be to modify or make a vf file that adjusted the font metrics to add a kern. (I think xetex or luatex could do this without making a vf file) – David Carlisle Jun 26 '12 at 15:39B_JackowskiATgustDOTorgDOTpl– egreg Jun 26 '12 at 16:30