Questions tagged [microtype]
{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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Microtype problem with line-endings
today i noticed that when i compile my Tex-File with LuaLaTeX and the Microtype-Package that the line-endings are not correctly formatted.
Here an small example where you can see that the punctuation ...
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LuaTeX won't end a line at Unicode emdash
I'm using LuaLaTeX instead of XeLaTeX for my book, mainly because it supports microtype's expansion feature, to produce the optimal word spacing and line breaking that will result in the most uniform ...
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Pre-built preamble with LuaLaTeX and microtype
I have been trying to get super-fast compiles with LuaLaTeX by using a pre-built preamble for my documents. However, every time I try to compile, I get this error:
No file main.aux.
[\directlua]:1: ...
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LaTeX won't hyphenate a word in sectioning header
I have a long subsection title, and it is resulting in the warning Overfull \hbox because LaTeX does not hyphenate the word "recherche" :
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage[french]{babel}
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Tuning Paragraph shape for makeup
Recently I happened to process ~4500 paragraphes in my 6-volum book set, ~1500 A4 pages, and I had many operations for page-proofing (widow and orphan control, amount of lines of last paragraph of the ...
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Microtype and Minion Pro
Before I formatted my computer (Windows 7 Pro 64 bit) I had MiKTeX (32 bit installed) and with respect to Minion Pro everything was smooth. I have been using ShareLaTeX since then and today I ...
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How can I improve the kerning of citation footnotes made with natbib?
I'm writing an article that requires the natbib package for citations, and I'm using the super and compress options. Right now I'm "manually" placing the citation outside of punctuation, as in
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British English hyphenation does not work properly. What is wrong with my code?
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[british]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[activate={true,nocompatibility},final,tracking=true,kerning=true,...
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classicthesis StrSubstitute and accented character
I have a "second order" incompatibility problem between: classicthesis, StrSubstitute and accented characters. Here is a MWE:
\documentclass[italian]{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[...
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Unwanted kerning inside em-dash when using microtype
I'm using microtype together with XCharter font. I have to add some space around en-dash and this works perfectly. Now I introduced some em-dashes with '---' but these are rendered by pdflatex as an ...
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microtype warning about “slots” and “text commands”
I’m writing a multilingual document using XeLaTeX, the scrreprt document class, and the XeCJK and microtype packages (loaded in that order).
MWE (with the font properly installed on my system):
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Kerning of MinionPro footnotefigures with microtype
I am using the MinionPro package and with the option footnotefigures. When this option is active, special glyphs are used for footnotes, which look a bit thicker than normal numbers. However, the ...
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Problems with using \pagenumbering{roman} in combination with the microtype package and labeling of sections / chapters
I am using the scrreprt document class for writing a report for a study course at my university. While writing the appendix I recognized that there seems to be an error caused by the microtype package ...
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Letterspaced texttyper text with identical width for inter-word spaces
I like to use LaTeX to place some text on top of an existing PDF form, so I don't have to fill it out by hand. For this I'm using microtypes letterspacing feature to stretch the upper-case text across ...
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Problem of amsart and microtype under xelatex
Would anyone know what is the problem of the interaction of amsart and microtype under xelatex -- that does not happen under latex, pdflatex or lualatex?
With the file:
\documentclass{amsart}
\...
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Word spacing with tracking in lualatex
What is the right way to do tracking in LuaLaTeX at the moment?
My problem is basically the same as in the older question Problem with interword spacing in LuaLaTeX.
However, the answer given by ...
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Enable hyphenation like in Word/OpenOffice/Libre Office [duplicate]
At first, I thought that hyphenation does not work properly. But then, I fould out that it is normal for (La)TeX and Babel to hyphenate (microtype) text in a different way than software like Word, ...
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microtype/ntheorem: Protrusion not affecting headers of the theorems
I'm trying to switch to the ntheorem package (instead of amsthm) but I realized that headers of the theorems aren't protruded:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[activate={true, nocompatibility}, ...
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Manually suppressing ligatures with {} does not work throughout the document
I have decided to write a document without using microtype because I have not yet figured out how to solve my kerning issue. But when I am not using microtype, I also cannot use \DisableLigatures{...
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Microtype protrusion doesn't work with hyperref in XeTeX
See this basic MWE. Protrusion works beautifully.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
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Suppress 'ae' and 'oe' ligatures in baskervaldx
I'm using Baskervaldx font with fontspec and LuaLaTeX, but I can't suppress 'ae' and 'oe' ligatures using either
\defaultfontfeatures{Ligatures={NoCommon,NoContextual,NoHistoric,NoDiscretionary}}
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Microtype: tracking for bold fonts
There are some new fonts (e.g. Fira, now IBM Plex) and even packages for pdftex. The fonts include extrabold and even black subfonts. I'd like to use them, but it seems necessary to add more space / ...
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Automatically alter letterspacing (intra-word spacing) to avoid loose lines with LuaLaTeX
In the book The Complete Manual of Typography by James Felici, it is recommended to sometimes alter the spaces between letters in order not to stretch the inter-word spaces too dramatically.
I have ...
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Alternative of \resizebox{\textwidth}{!} for homogenously fixing font size for multiple lines
I am trying to list three different sentences:
\begin{tabular}{@{}p{0.4in}p{0.3in}p{4in}}
Fall &2015 &Teaching Assistant, Machine Learning (Andrew Ng)\\
Winter &2016 &...
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How to enforce disabled protrusion for first line of paragraph [closed]
My setup is LuaLaTex with fontspec and microtype.
I would like to overwrite the default protrusion settings of microtype for the font I am using.
As there are no font-specific defaults defined, I ...
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Microtype is not working with lualatex on MikTex [closed]
When I compile a document on a certain MikTeX installation on Windows with microtype 2.7 (determined in MikTeX Package Manager) using lualatex.exe -synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode "mwe".tex I get ...
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Problem with lmodern font and paired delimiter / overline
I'm currently writing my bachelor thesis and forgot to include \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}. But I'm using \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc} and \usepackage{microtype}. When I included \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} ...
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Automatic letterspacing of capitals
I have a very large text corpus that I am fine-tuning for typography among other things. From what I know, abbreviations, such as ACAB, need to be letterspaced. I have found somewhat convincing ...
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Protrusion not working for cyrillic dash
In the following LuaLaTeX MWE I am using protrusion, but it doesn't work for the cyrillic dash "--- (it is a babel shortand) while working for the normal one.
\documentclass[10pt,draft]{scrbook}
\...
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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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MinionPro, microtype and \j - Is there a way to get rid of a strange warning?
When I typeset my free physics textbook, I get a microtype warning
Unknown slot number of character `\j'
(It happens only for this character, no other one.) I get this message since many years, ...
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Disabling ligatures also disables kerning
I am using Adobe Minion Pro (mostly because of its maths support), but I don't want to use the 'Th' ligature. This decision is based on guidance from Bringhurst's Elements of Typographic Style.
I ...
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How to protrude the left side of a bibliography?
In some circumstances it is very nice to have a bibliography text typeset with protrusion enabled, especially when one uses a bibliography style in which a lot of lines begin with italics. However, ...
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Undefined control sequence \DeclareMicrotypeSet
I am trying to compile the tex file for CV template of
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/grayclhn/safecv/master/template-grad.tex.
The error message is :
! Undefined control sequence.
l.45 \...
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Modifying (i.e., partially overriding) microtype's character protrusion settings for specific characters
I would like to disable or modify character protrusion (enabled by microtype) for specific characters.
Let me illustrate the issue with the en-dash, which protrudes far too wide for my taste:
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Setting SMALL CAPS font protrusion in microtype for Charis SIL?
I am trying to enable font protrusion for Charis SIL in microtype when typesetting with the XeTeX engine. The mycrotype manual indicates that it has protrusion settings for Charis SIL, but only in ...
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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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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}
\RequirePackage[babel=true,...
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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.
\documentclass{...
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Customizing protrusion in microtype using \SetProtrusion
I am using microtype in a document (with pdftex) and I would like to alter the amount of protrusion that small numbers (i.e. the digits 0-9) are subject to.
However, I cannot make \SetProtrusion ...
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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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How to *disable* Lua's Microtype for a given tabular column?
I'm looking for a way to disable Lua's Microtype (note the capital M - to distinguish from the lower case microtype package) in the first tabular column of the MWE given below:
\documentclass[a4paper]...
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Microtype and LuaTeX: changing protrusion and hanging punctuation
I'm experimenting (using TeXLive 2013) with having my punctuation marks extend fully into both the left and right margins. I don't know how to include images so I'll do my best to format this here to ...
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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 \...
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microtype producing dozens of Unknown slot number warnings
With TeX Live 2017, microtype has started producing dozens of
unknown slot number warnings. This does not happen with TeX Live
2016 (fully updated). Here is an MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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SetProtrusion of microtype package doesn't have any effect [closed]
I am trying to change or disable protrusion for specific characters. However, it doesn't seem to have any effect at all.
I use Charis SIL font and for now I am trying to disable endash and emdash ...
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Using microtype (or similar) to sequeeze/extend paragraph by one line?
I am tuning page breaks for a book; it has very short paragraphs (dialogues), many 2 & 3-liners, thus many potential widows/clubs which I try to avoid; this leads to large stretching of vertical ...
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protrusion issue - pdftex bug, microtype bug or LaTeX bug?
While finishing an article for TUGboat I came across a strange behavior of the protrusion mechanism of pdfTeX (as implemented by the microtype package). The character \ in typewriter has a negative ...
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Deactivate protrusion for active character `«
Is ist possible to deactivate microtype’s protrusion for certain characters only? I’m trying to make «#1» a shortcut for \fbox{#1} but it won’t work unless I deactivate protrusion completly.
% !TeX ...
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Avoid en dashes from sticking out of the text body with microtype [duplicate]
When using microtype, en dashes seem to extend beyond the text body if they appear at the beginning or end of a line. How can I get around this?
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{mathpazo}
\...
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