{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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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 can I completely suppress ligatures?
The microtype package allows to completely suppress ligatures. However, this feature requires pdfTeX 1.30 or newer. That's unfortunate if I'm using LaTeX or XeLaTeX while having to avoid ligatures.
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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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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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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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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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How do I get the protrusion to work in XeTeX?
When I render my documents using pdfLaTeX and microtype they look fine, but when I switch to XeTeX the right edges of justified text look terrible: some lines overlfow, and hyphens look "indented". Is ...
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Disable microtype for a portion of a document
Update: 2013-04-18
After upgrading to microtype 2.5 today this specific test cases indeed runs much faster (from approximately 3:00 minutes down to 8 seconds). However, I do have another cases where ...
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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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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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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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Can I get full justification for italic text?
In the TeXbook, Knuth notes that italics can lead to problems with justification:
EXERCISE 14.16
When an entire paragraph is typeset in italic or slanted type, it sometimes appears to be offset ...
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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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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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Which ligatures do the fonts used in my document offer?
This is a follow-up question to: How do I know which ligatures are used in my document?
In order to know which ligatures I might consider disabling (I have in mind microtype's \DisableLigatures ...
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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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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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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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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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fontspec, lua, microtype: Renderer=Basic no longer working for specific font styles
You may have noticed that, as of now,* letterspacing small capitals is not as easy as it was in pdfTeX, where we could simply combine \textsc with microtype's \textls. Consider this example, which ...
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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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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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Should I load microtype with pdflatex?
Should I always load the microtype package with pdflatex?
Could it produce unwanted effects a naive user (like me) might ignore?
Are there any known issues as for compatibility with other packages?
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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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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 do I know which ligatures are used in my document?
In order to know which ligatures I might consider disabling, I would like to know which ones are actually used in my document. (Which ligatures are provided by a font is a more general question; I ...
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pdfTeX font expansion error - \SetExpansion in microtype package
I am trying to hammer in some stacked matrix notation to fit the paragraph by shrinking the font. To do so I am using the \SetExpansion option from the microtype package. But pdfTeX is spitting out ...
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How do I enable protrusion for footnotes with \fnsymbol using microtype?
In microtype package (v.2.5 beta 06) and footnote protrusion, custom protrusion for footnote numbers is enabled. However, as soon as I edit the footnote characters to the ones generated by \fnsymbol ...
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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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How to get microtype to work with mathematical minus sign and package lmodern?
Using the package microtype by including the line
\usepackage{microtype}
in the preamble subtly alters the appearance of a typeset document by, amongst other things, letting optically less dense ...
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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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How to install microtype 2.8 beta? [duplicate]
I want to test microtype 2.8 beta, to get better typography support for XeLaTeX as proposed elsewhere. However, I could not find any reference online how to install the latest beta version, neither ...
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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 protrusion incompatible quote, changemargin and adjustwidth environments
Here is my problem. I need some text to have a reduced margin. Unfortunately, none of the suggested methods of doing this appear to be compatible with microtype protrusion. Is this a bug? Is there a ...
