{microtype} is a package that provides a LaTeX interface to the micro-typographic features of pdfTeX, LuaTeX and XeTeX, most prominently, character protrusion and font expansion.
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Classic Thesis & Microtype
I would to know if with classicthesis the microtype package must be loaded, or is loaded by default from classicthesis.sty. And if is loaded, what features are enabled?
if the microtype package must ...
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microtype + siunitx and \micro - mysterious warnings
This code
\documentclass{scrreprt}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{siunitx}
\begin{document}
\SI{10}{\micro\metre}
\end{document}
produces these ...
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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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How to adjust font size or kerning to fit line width?
I have some text that nearly fits the given line width. I can see that a minimal adjustment of font size or kerning would make the text fit, but how do I tell LaTeX to squeeze the text? Yes, this ...
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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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Space from line
How can i obtain the correct spacing of the two writings from the line? if you note the upper write is more far from the line...
\documentclass[a4paper]{memoir}
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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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Disabling selected ligatures with microtype
With a font in T1 encoding, using pdfTeX and the package microtype, I'd like to disable the ligatures for "ff" and "ffi", but keep the ligature for "fi". If I type in the preamble
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Setting font protrusion in XeLaTeX with microtype v2.5
I am testing microtype v2.5 with XeLaTeX and have checked the font protrusion features. With the default features, the hyphen protrudes at a hyphenation about 50 per cent of its width. Nonetheless, ...
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XeLaTeX and Microtype [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Margin kerning in Xe(La)TeX for TeXlive 2010: how to enable?
Is it possible to get microtype to work with XeLaTeX? Is there any other alternatives to that kind of ...
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Microtype and textpos
I have found an effect on the part of the microtype package that I'd wish to cancel somehow. In the MWE that I am including below I collect a couple of token contents to be typed as part of a footer ...
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best practice international template
I would like to have a template which can be internationalised (i.e. is suited for latin script languages) and uses the microtype package. I suppose that we therefore need the following packages:
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Why does microtype cause auto-pst-pdf to run slowly?
I have a build process using pdflatex that had been working fine (and reasonably fast) until I added auto-pst-pdf in order to process some EPS figures. Doing this causes rendering to slow down and ...
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“Bleed” text into the page margins?
Is it possible to have lines (as an exception) that continue into the right margin ?
Here's why I hope it's possible: I have a document and one of the headings is the formal name of a particular ...
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How do I activate hanging punctuation with XeteX under ConTeXt?
I'm noob at ConTeXt. I want to use auto2 font with ConTeXt, I think the easiest way to do that is using the XeTeX backend. ConTeXt can do some protrusion with pdfTeX and LuaTeX, but with XeTeX it ...
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Mimicking the Microtype documentation
One of the nicest LaTeX examples I have seen is the Microtype documentation.
The .dtx file is available here and I have been trying to recreate a document looking like this. Unfortunately it's not ...
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microtype character code
I am using lualatex This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.70.1-2011062107 (rev 4277) with microtype [2011/08/18 v2.5 <beta-07> Micro-typographical refinements (RS)]. My computer has an american ...
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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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How to set expansion and protrusion for TeX Gyre Pagella using LuaLaTeX?
For my documents, I have often used the mathpazo package combined with microtype and have found the result to be really good. Because now I need to create PDFs which contain a variety of diacritics ...
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Increasing Letterspace for words in caps or small caps
Some typographers say it's a good habit to increase the letterspace when writing words in caps or small caps. So my question is, how to do it with pdflatex and/or xelatex? And while we're at it, which ...
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How to reduce the number of hyphenation?
Sometimes, assume our document contain many long words, TeX may generate some hyphenation at the end of line. But it really hinder our smooth reading. Although I know we can add the hyphenation rule ...
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How to set-up LuaTeX, Microtype, with Minion Pro, Myriad Pro
Since recently I am using LuaLaTeX with the most recent beta version of Microtype, along with the fonts Minion Pro and Myriad Pro. In the manual of Microtype it says:
Currently, this package ...
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meta packages and typesetting
Background(just ignore):
Is there an exhaustive list of packages that you should load and of things you should do to improve your document? Here I mean packages and things that have to do with the ...
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Wrong protrusion with csquotes and microtype
I’m experiencing problems using the csquotes package and microtype using protrusion (margin kerning). The problem is that using \enquote I only get margin kerning on the left margin.
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What font configuration is used by microtype documentation
I really like the font configuration (appearance) of the documentation for microtype package (see here). How do I find out the combination they're using? (I will fix the protrusion etc later but first ...
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How to limit hyphenation in a multicol environment?
I have a LaTeX document (compiling with pdflatex), with the multicols and microtype package enabled.
The document is using two cols using the \begin{multicols}{2} ...\end{multicols} environment.
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No tracking with Microtype + russian babel + mathdesign
I'm trying to compile the following code based on "more realistic example" from microtype.sty manual, Sect. 5.3. It works without babel (or with, say, french option) or without mathdesign. But with ...
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Which LaTeX font packages contain real small caps and work with the “microtype” package?
I'm wondering which font packages are available in MikTeX and TeXLive containing real small caps and also work together with the "microtype" package? For instance, kpfonts has real small caps but ...
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Set font expansion so that distortion is not noticeable
In a comment to The kerning option of microtype Karl Karlsson writes:
Most of the typographers agree, that Font expansion distorts the font.
Personally, I see it, and I agree - the distortion is ...
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Fixing an overfull box
I have an overfull box in a French text which looks like this:
The sequence at the end of the line is:
d'Ananias~: \og Vous
"Vous" cannot be hyphenated and \og inserts a non-secable space, so ...
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Wrong PDF crop when using the microtype package or zero margin
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I'm still using TexLive 2010 (ubuntu) and I need to create some tight pdf (using pdflatex and pdfcrop with --hires option).
I need to use ...
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microtype package (v.2.5 beta 06) and footnote protrusion
According to section 6 of microtype manual (v.2.5 from 2011/02/07, p. 23) the code below should set custom protrusion for footnote numbers. However, when \microtypecontext command is set, it cancels ...
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LuaLaTeX, fontspec and tracking with microtype
I try to get microtype's tracking working but without success: up-to-date TeXlive 2011 (lualatex 0.70.1) with microtype v2.5 beta 07. Sample code:
\documentclass{article}
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Why does the use of microtype and xfrac lead to a high compile time?
While I was discussing another issue I came across this problem:
I included the xfrac package and the compile time of my document 100folded. After playing around I found out that microtype caused the ...
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textls breaks smallcaps with luatex
I'm switching a code to LuaTex from XeTeX. In XeTeX, I had a combination of tracking and small caps using LetterSpace and WordSpace parameters in fontspec calls, but these are not supported in with ...
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XeTeX, microtype and fontspec
I am using XeTeX from TL2010 with microtype 2.5 beta and fontspec. My main font is Linux Libertine O. I do not see a single difference with and without including the microtype package.
Am I doing ...
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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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Incompatibility between svjour3 and microtype
There seems to be an incompatibility between the svjour3 document class for Springer journals and the microtype package. Minimal example:
\documentclass{svjour3}
\usepackage{microtype}
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LaTeX and Glyph Scaling for Justified Text
I am very new to LaTeX - and I am not sure if Latex has the capability to do what I want, so I thought I would ask here.
I am working with publishing books in Khmer (the language of Cambodia) in ...
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microtype versus mathastext: unknown slot number error
The following MWE compiles with pdftex but produces a mysterious warning.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{libertine}
\usepackage{mathastext}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
Here is some ...
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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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Space after lettrine
When using the lettrine package, there are often additional spaces after the small caps:
It can get even bigger than that actually. It seems to me that this is because lettrine uses an mbox to ...
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Fix math mode kerning of “C”
I am trying to set a sequence of atom packing symbols. I want to use math mode italics for this, as I think that their width fits this purpose.
The problem is that the C has a bad kerning for this. ...
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microtype font expansion and DVI output; problem with kpathsea
Consider the following file test.tex
\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[protrusion,expansion]{microtype}
\begin{document}
\chapter{A new chapter}
Some actual testing ...
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pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible with scalable
I'm using a custom class file.
My main file looks like this:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{thesis}
\begin{document}
\frontmatter
\pagenumbering{alph}
\pagenumbering{roman}
\clearpage
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Unexpected interaction between microtype and \parindent
The microtype package (or more likely the pdfTeX microtypographic extensions) have a strange interaction with \parindent that bit me.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
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Microtype and quote environment leads to different indent of first line
When the microtype package is loaded a quote environment which starts with punctuation marks is inconsistent "indented". The first line in the following minimal example is unaffected, i.e. at the same ...
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Times (or Termes) with protrusion/hanging in ConTeXt MkIV
On the ConTeXt wiki, http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Protrusion#MkIV, some examples are given of how to use Termes fonts and how to use microtypographical extensions. The bottom example works, but
I ...
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How to do extra spacing when using small caps for abbreviations?
The default letter spacing for small capitals seem optimised for use in headlines and such but a bit too cramped for use in abbreviations. How should I do to get the letter spacing more suitably ...
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How do I call microtype's \SetProtrusion in the preamble?
In this answer about full justification for italic text, I used microtype's \SetProtrusion to get better-looking margin kerning for italics. It works fine, but I had to call \SetProtrusion after ...
