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I'm trying to change the default word spacing for some font. I know 2 ways to do it: setting \fontdimens or \spaceskip. With these approaches and microtype's \textls I get two different results, none of them satisfactory. How can I get the same (increased) interword space inside letterspaced text and between it and regular text?

Example:

\documentclass{book}

\def\test#1{{#1\relax
\textls[200]{test test} test test\par}}

\usepackage{microtype}

\begin{document}
\test{}
\test{\spaceskip 10pt}
\test{\spaceskip 0pt\fontdimen2\font 10pt}

\end{document}
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    Perhaps I'm not quite following, but what is your desired outcome?
    – bishopcranmer
    Dec 9, 2013 at 15:12
  • 1. Increase default interword space; 2. increase letterspace locally; 3. get equal interword spaces
    – Vadim Radionov
    Dec 9, 2013 at 15:13
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    Note the fontdimen setting is global
    – David Carlisle
    Dec 9, 2013 at 15:21
  • Yes, I know it. In real work I set it for the whole document from the very beginning. But microtype seems to be using something else for its calculations.
    – Vadim Radionov
    Dec 9, 2013 at 15:24
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    One possible reason to change default spacing: different languages have different mean character width (e.g. in Russian we don't have "i" or "l").
    – Vadim Radionov
    Dec 9, 2013 at 18:28

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Reset to default
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The question has multiple non specified assumptions. But in case you want to increase the default interword space, use XeTeX. See section 7.3 of fontspec's manual.

\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O}
\usepackage{kantlipsum}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
\kant[1]
\addfontfeature{WordSpace=10}
\kant[1]
\textit{\kant[1]}
\end{document}
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