{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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Is there a way to automatically change kerning between commas/full stops and footnote marks?
This question led to a new package:
fnpct
Following up on my question on the kerning of footnote marks after punctuation marks, I'd like to know if there is a way to achieve the kerning of ...
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Prettiest way to typeset “C++” (cplusplus)?
Writing "C++" in plain text results in an ugly setting, as the '+' signs are too big and too spaced:
I've seen around the web several marcos for typesetting the "C++" symbol, ranging from mild ...
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Margin kerning in Xe(La)TeX for TeXlive 2010: how to enable?
I'm using the pre-release testing version of TeXlive 2010. From what I understand from the TeXlive Guide, a new feature is that support for magin kerning has been added to XeTeX.
From what I can ...
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Kerning issue with Adobe Garamond Pro: XeTeX or font file to blame ?
I have run into a strange kerning issue, limited to the German letter pair Wä, when using the Adobe Garamond Pro font with XeTeX. The document looks great except for that particular pair. But see for ...
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Is there a way to adjust kerning for a specific character combination?
Is it possible to tell (La)TeX to adjust the kerning of a specific character combination? For example, suppose I want !! to be typeset as !\kern 1.2pt!, just like ff is automatically turned into a ...
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Macro to be used in a \section command that has no effect in the table of contents
I need a macro that is executed only in the main document (within a section title) and then disappears (for the table of contents).
A minimal example where this occurs is this:
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Improved kerning in fractions?
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How can I apply selective kerning within the numerator and denominator of an inline fraction? Specifically, I'd like to:
Tighten kerning after the numerator if it ends in 7
Loosen kerning ...
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Space between the two slashes in “http://” too big
I'm using a lot of links with http:// in my document, but the two slashes are too much separated, I'd like them to be more near each other. How do I do this, in a neat way?
I'm using a sans-serif ...
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The kerning option of microtype
I wonder what the kerning option of the microtype package does? In the manual it says that kerning=true will give additional kerning. But how? Is this something that has to be specified in addition to ...
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How to properly typeset footnotes/superscripts after punctuation marks?
I find the spacing of footnote marks after punctuation marks quite unsatisfactory, especially with sans serif fonts and compared to the spacing after letters. Example follows:
I came up with a ...
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How to reduce the space between two slashes when using \url?
This is a follow-up question to Space between two slashes. Bianca Lobo's answer (defining a \twobar command with proper kerning) is nice; however, it doesn't work in the argument of the \url command ...
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How to fix kerning of comma/colon after quotes?
How to fix kerning of comma/colon after quotes?
Hello, I’m a relative newbie in latex and am trying to reduce the space between closing quotes and colon/comma, but by a general way in the preamble, ...
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Kerning for arabic digits?
In most fonts, arabic digits have nonproportional width, meaning that 1 and 8 have exactly the same width even if the former has a smaller natural width. This is good for typesetting tables, but in ...
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How to use \widthof as parameter to \kern
I sometimes encounter a problem when I attempt to use \widthof from the calc package, and don't know why. In the past I have just worked around it using a two step process of defining a \newdimen{} ...
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Three emdashes bound together
In many bibliography styles repeating authors are indicated with three emdashes, forming a single line. This works well with some fonts, while for others it leaves gaps:
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Uneven spacing around a hyphen in sans-serif?
I am used to writing the names of categories in sans-serif. Thus, for the category of R-modules, I have been using
$R\textrm{-}\textsf{Mod}$
However, the kerning/spacing this produces has never ...
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Kerning between V and / in Palatino and Euler
Edit 1
I made the test with real palatino font and Neo-Euler, with the same result
(As far as I can see)
\documentclass{standalone}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont[] {PalatinoLTStd-Roman.otf}
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Make apostrophe closer to letter
I am using the lettrine package to typeset capitals. When there is an apostrophe with a capital L, the spaces look quite ugly. I would like to achieve something like the following:
I've already set ...
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Problem formatting a subscript in math mode
$\nu_{\rm FWHM}$
prints FWHM too large. But when I try:
$\nu_{\mbox{\tiny FWHM}}$
the size is okay but the kerning looks wrong.
What is the best way to make a compact little FWHM subscript tag ...
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Spacing too large with exponents and big Oh
What's the correct way to typeset the following to get the normal spacing you would expect were you to, for example, write the terms out by hand.
\documentclass[a4paper,11pt]{article}
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Zapf Chancery and placing a k next to a g
So, I was playing with fonts and found one really nice. It's just that I ran into trouble trying to write the word Background (quite a common word, eh?) using it. The k and the g extend into each ...
