I'm using LuaTeX with Garamond Premier font. For some reason, enabling tracking
from microtype
package changes the tracking of small caps quite considerably. Maybe too much? See the pictures:
With tracking=false
(or without the whole microtype
package):
With tracking=true
:
When using tracking=true
, I seem to get no change to output if I also specify %\SetTracking{encoding=*, shape=sc}{100}
. So the default tracking value seems to be 100 for small caps when tracking is enabled.
Q: Which one or what is the correct tracking I should be using? I know how to change the tracking, but I don't know what would be the desired target.
Is there an objective truth here? I'd rather not set anything manually. Or is this 100% subjective thing and I need to decide it by myself by tweaking the tracking value? To my eye the 100 looks a bit too sparse so I'd bring it down a few notches.
MWE:
\documentclass[a4paper]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\setmainfont[]{Garamond-Premier-Pro.ttf}
\begin{document}
Normal text. \textsc{small caps}.
\end{document}
letterspace=75
(or theSetTracking
command).microtype
package. It indeed seems that the package defaulted to a sparse letter spacing/tracking with SC fonts. And now I know how to change that.