Letterspacing, or tracking, is the uniform adjustment of the space between letters of a font. Not to be confused with kerning.
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How do I get microtype's “outer spacing” to work with the xspace package?
Microtype adds extra space to the start and end of letterspaced text, configured via the \SetTracking command's "outer spacing" option. Unfortunately, xspace breaks this. For example, I define a few ...
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Adjusting letterspacing in ConTeXt
I need to adjust the letterspacing of the font I'm using. I'm currently using the font like this:
\usemodule[simplefonts]
\definefontfeature[default][default][protrusion=quality,expansion=quality]
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Letterspacing/font expansion in LuaLaTeX
I am a few months into learning LaTeX. I would like to use microtype with LuaLaTeX and I would like to obtain letter spacing for my smallcaps. I've tried to follow some of the threads on the subject ...
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Switching text case with package collcell
I would like to use the package collcell to change the case of every string in a column of a tabuenvironment. I know there are workarounds to do this without resorting to the package, but none of ...
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Weird spacing with DejaVu Sans Mono with MiKTeX's XeLaTeX
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{DejaVu Serif}
\setsansfont{DejaVu Sans}
\setmonofont{DejaVu Sans Mono}
\begin{document}
Hello World!
\textsf{Hello World!}
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Letterspacing titles with LuaLaTeX
I'm using LuaLaTeX to write my thesis and I've been learning about typography thanks to Robert Bringhurst's "The elements of typographic style". Problem is I can't replicate the letterspacing used in ...
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Enlarging tracking (= letter spacing)
I am trying to enlarge letter spacing. I have already tried soul package, but it seems it can enlarge only for a single phrase and i would like to enlarge for entire document.
Soul command was ...
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CJK spacing suddenly no longer works
I have been using CJK script in my documents successfully for some time, but today it suddenly stopped working properly. I did update some packages through TeX Live today, and recently I reinstalled a ...
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Center-justify with hrule above and below
On my title page, I have something like this:
\rule{\linewidth}{0.25mm}\\[0.25cm]
\huge
\textbf{This is my title, it is somewhat long and split over two lines!}\\[0.25cm]
\normalsize
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Keeping the distance between mathematical symbols consistent?
In order to make text flushed both left and right, latex adjusts the distance between words, and to a lesser extent, the distance between characters within a word. This is good, however it also ...
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XeLaTeX: Space between letters
I use XeLaTeX. I need that words look stretched in some places in the document. How I can configure the space between letters in a word?
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italic correction in math mode
I use txfonts and \texttt in italics in math mode, but the letters' italic correction is not working: an italic/"TT" letter "d" adjacent to a closing parenthesis touches it. Here is minimal sample ...
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Too much space before digit “1”
In many fonts, the digit 1 contains a lot of empty space on its left side. Maybe this is desirable inside a number like 512, but it looks wrong to me when the 1 appears at the beginning of a word, as ...
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Making text narrow
I'm using \textlsfrom the microtype package to increase space between letters, but I can't find a command that will make a text look narrow (or maybe a very narrow serif font?).
What is the best way ...
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New command for spacing letters in microtype
How can i make a new command that increases the space in between the letters. I do not want to use the already existing commands like \textsc, \Large or \footnotesize; and if it's possible I prefer a ...
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Using microtype letterspacing with LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.2-2012062812
Does the letterspacing (and tracking) options of microtype not work with the latest version of LuaTeX?
When I try:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[no-math]{fontspec}
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Switching a string in a token register to lowercase and processing via the package soul
I would like to store a string in a token register, transform it to all-lowercase, and process the resulting string via the macro \caps provided by the package soul. That is to say, transform the ...
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Disabling interword spacing for periods following capital letters
By default, LaTex inserts a longer, intersentence space after a period. The exception is if the period follows a capital letter, in which case an interword space is assumed. This thread describes ...
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fully stretch text horizontally on page
Is there a way to fully stretch one line of text on the full width of the page, without manually setting the letter spacing, no matter how many characters on the line?
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lstlisting with c++: spaces around scope resolution operator
I am having a hard time to make the output of lstlisting for c++ source look good. Currently, I am stuck with a problem to reduce the amount of space around the scope resolution operator ::. See the ...
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Letterspacing memoir section headers
I'd like to add letterspacing to the \section commands with \setsecheadstyle in a memoir book.
I tried using soul:
\sodef\soSection{}{.1em}{.5em plus.1em}{.1em plus.1em minus.1em}
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Letterspacing, Minion Pro, and Tufte-LaTeX (problem with running header)
I'm trying to use Minion Pro with the Tufte-LaTeX class. Basically, I've got it working, but I have a problem with letterspacing the small caps for the running header. Rather than appearing in small ...
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Capital letter expanded letter space kerning
I am using the following code
\usepackage{microtype,textcase}
\textls*[110]{\textbf{\MakeUppercase{Specialties}}}
I would like to achieve even letter spacing. Unfortunately, the kerning of the ...
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How can I get Sperrsatz?
Sperrsatz is a special kind of emphasis often used in combination with blackletter fonts. A word in Sperrsatz has 0.125 em spaces between its characters, but some ligatures are preserved. For example: ...
