Questions tagged [kerning]
{kerning} is the process of adjusting the spacing between characters in a proportional font, usually to achieve a visually pleasing result.
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Math mode character spacing
I am writing a solution to a geometry exercise. I use $AB$ for the length of the line, or arc, from A to B. This results in a larger than desired spacing between the two characters. I can 'fix' it ...
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Narrower kerning of symbols generated by Tikz [duplicate]
I'm using LaTeX to render a set of custom glyphs. Each glyph is perfectly rectangular, at a 3.5 x 5 aspect ratio, and they're defined something like this (the following example just lines the borders ...
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How to ignore kerning of underbrace in math mode
Is there a way to instruct LaTeX to ignore the text in the \underbrace for purposes of kerning the equation in math mode?
\begin{align}
&x
\underbrace{(4-3y)}_
{\text{Positive $\...
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How can I force resized mathmode symbols to respect fontsize changes?
I want to make a latex symbol that contains a resized math symbol using \scriptscriptsize. However, when the scope containing the symbol is subject to a font resize, the \scriptscriptsize-ed symbol is ...
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Add kerning correction before capital V
Kerning correction works if the capital letter is in front of the small letter. The other way round spaces seems uneven.
Take for example the space between the e and V in the word PeVatron. It seems ...
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Proper kerning in case the symbol with a subscript is a glossary term and a superscript is another glossary term
Continuing How to get glossary terms to properly typeset subscripts/superscripts?, let's consider the following input:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\...
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Kerning for subscripts of \sigma?
Is there any way to reduce the distance inside σ₀ and between \sigma and its subscript in general in the following setup automatically? That is, each time you type in \sigma_0 (or \sigma_1 etc.), you ...
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Kerning numbers of endnotes
The management of kerning appears in LaTeX not so effective in the case of note numbers. A magnificent solution for footnotes has been provided by David Purton in this thread:
Lining numbers for ...
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Alternative of `\rule` in ConTeXt for lifting `\hat` slightly up
In ConTeXt, I want to lift a \hat slightly up, since \hat is too low and touches the variable.
Now, this post is exactly what I want.
It suggests:
\hat{\rule{0ex}{1.2ex}\mkern-3mu x}_{t+1}
However, ...
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Kerning with parentheses
Given the MWE below, one can see that the spacing around the parentheses is rather awkward. The opening parenthesis is too close to \cos and \sin, and too far away from the \omega. The closing ...
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Glyph collision in newtxtext
I would like to avoid programmatically what, to my eyes, is a collision between the italic glyphs for "g" followed by "f" with the newtxtext package. Inserting a kern value between the two of them in ...
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Kerning (with realscripts) not in footnotes marker
Plz, consider the following code:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{realscripts}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\babelfont[english]{rm}[Ligatures=TeX,Numbers={...
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Kerning with `realscripts` and LuaLaTex
If I use lining superscript numbers for footnotes with realscripts package, I realize that it uses locally \addfontfeature, so there is no kerning. Please, consider this trivial case:
\documentclass[...
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How to fix scrlayer-scrpage / microtype kerning issue?
I am experiencing a weird interaction between scrlayer-scrpage package from Koma Script and a custom microtype setting. I am using scrartcl class together with Minion Pro font and scrlayer-scrpage. I ...
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Weird formatting in a smaller created empty set symbol
A while back I created my own sort of emptyset symbol because the "not equal" slash didn't line up and it annoyed me. So I defined my own emptyset via \DeclareMathOperator{\vempty}{{\centernot{\Circle}...
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XeLaTeX produces wrong ellipsis
Consider this MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\begin{document}
\textellipsis\ /
\ldots\ /
… /
...
\end{document}
With pdfLaTeX, I get this result:
While XeLaTeX produces this:
The kerning is ...
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Kerning of superscripted recto, verso and full stop/comma in biblatex-dw
I've created three commands for biblatex-dw to typeset \recto \verso and \rectoverso references.
If one of these commands is followed by a full stop or comma the horizontal spacing between the ...
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How to kern kpfont integrals? [duplicate]
kpfont integrals have a lot of empty space both on the left and on the right ever with smashoperator:
How do I kern the function "into" the integral and reduce the white space of the left document-...
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Unclarities about Microtype's default options
I delved deeper into the details of the microtype package to get the best results and perhaps not the safest results. Four things are still unclear after reading the manual, hence a post here.
(1) ...
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LuaLaTeX + unicode-math results in wrong \mkern and \mskip
In a personal package I tested \mkern and \mskip for different values using pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX, I discovered that the spacing using \mkern0mu and \mskip0mu seems to leave a negative space of -1.1mu....
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typesetting spaces in initials in German texts
Assuming you are preparing a German text (say, to be published with Springer), what would be a "standard" way to typeset spaces in a name, say, Edsger Wybe Dijkstra, in which the initials are ...
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Is there a LuaLaTeX solution to adjust superscript kerning on large delimiters?
Superscripts can sit very far from large parentheses, more for some fonts than others. I am seeking a Lua-based solution to adjust the kerning of math superscripts on delimiters.
Here is an example ...
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Fix ugly kerning in equation subscript
I'm beautifying some HW solutions for the upcoming semester, and came across a kerning issue
\documentclass[]{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\begin{document}
\[C_{in} \ \ C_{out} \ \ C_{eff}\]
\end{...
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Underline part of a word while preserving kerning
The usual ways of underlining text (or at least the ones I know of: be it with \underline or e.g. the soul package) break kerning when used with part of a word. My current solution consists of a two-...
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Set global non-ligature kerning with selnolig
Similar to this question I want to use selnolig but I don't like the fact that in words containing fl without ligature these two letters are too close together.
Like in Mico's answer I want to use ...
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Why user-defined whatsit kicks out kerning?
I ran in to trouble marking math content (in this example I'll be talking about simple superscript) with user-defined whatsit. Font kerning does not appear if whatsit is in between characters where ...
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Which controls the kerning and position of superscript/subscript, LaTeX or font itself?
I want to adjust the global kerning (and also the position) of superscript and subscript when using some particular font in math mode. I know the kerning between letters is designed in the font itself,...
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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
Hello ...
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pdfLaTeX solution to en dash kerning around numbers with newtx font
I often write number ranges using en dashes, e.g. 1--2. However, I've noticed that whenever I encounter the number 4 on the right end of an en dash, the two characters appear so close to each other it ...
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Automatically apply a kern rule for all characters that follow a specific character
I am writing some text using the \calligra font and there are some specific instances where I want to manually reduce the kerning between letters.
See the MWE below. I have reduced the kerning ...
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When (and why) to use manual kerning for mathematical content?
I recently asked here, a question about the choice of OpenType Unicode fonts for my PhD thesis. After considering the comments and answers to the question, I decided to use Libertinus for both text ...
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Kerning of pairs with LuaTeX for babel shorthands
I want to make use of the pairwise kerning of this answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/370469/75284 using fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature to adjust the kerning of character pairs with the hyphen -. ...
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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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Letters' kerning space so different?
I'm wondering what is happening here:
Why is the third line getting so much squeezed to the left? Is the kerning of the letter Z really so much less than Y and X?
This is happening in a longtable ...
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mathmode spacing shorter than \quad? [duplicate]
Is there a way to get a spacing which is half or quarter the length of \quad in mathmode?
Maybe there's an easy way to define a shortcut for such command?
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Kerning issue between the letters “f” and “i” [duplicate]
I noticed that after compiling a document using TeXWorks and PDFLaTeX (I made a clean install less than a month ago) there seems to be a strange kerning issue whenever "f" and "i" appear next to each ...
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Xelatex, Minion Pro and Italian apostrophe kerning
I know there are plenty of questions about it but after way too much searching I couldn't find a working fix. Some only work with lualatex, some with \usepackage{MinionPro}, some don't even compile...
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Small gap around \color{}
I'd like to change the color of a few letters in a word. I use the following commands:
... \color{g}a\color{d}way ..., or ... a\color{g}way \color{d} ...
Here, d is the default color, g is defined ...
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[T1]{fontenc}, [utf8]{inputenc} and {microtype}: Kerning does not work
My code looks as follows:
\documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[activate={true,nocompatibility},final,...
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Working with kerning commands in token lists
I have written some commands that are supposed to simplify the typesetting of derivations from a formal grammar.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage{amsmath}
...
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Kerning after variable names with multiple letters
This question is related to Two letter variable names and Multiple letters without spacing in Math [duplicate], but it seems to me that the answers to these questions do not fully solve my problem.
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XeLaTeX italic/quote kerning problem
I'm using xelatex. I would like, I think, to alter the kerning between certain italic/math characters, and apostrophes and quotation marks. Here's my problem:
\documentclass[a4paper,12pt]{minimal}
\...
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Discretionary hyphen destroys kerning and ligature
Consider the following example (plain TeX format):
VA fi\par
V\-A f\-i
\bye
I tried TeX, pdfTeX, XeTeX, and LuaTeX, but the second line looks the same as the first line only when using LuaTeX. My ...
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nth root kerning problem with unicode-math font override
I am using both \mathscr and \mathcal to different meanings and expecting different characters to appear.
I recently switched to XeTeX and started using new fonts (TeX Gyre Pagella in this example) ...
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Why is there a conflict between \kern and this Separator & customized-Tooltips command
Because the MWE below uses the line
LINE 1:
\def\anyX#1{#1} %%% OK
it compiles without a hassle.
If one replaces LINE 1 with the (also included in the MWE) following line (but uncomment it):
LINE ...
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LaTeMplate macro based on LaTeX macro
I am trying to produce yet another LaTeX-like macro. It was supposed to based entirely on the original LaTeX combination with one little change, and to just work fine. Long story short, it didn't. As ...
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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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Kerning with selnolig
You can use the selnolig package to break up inappropriate ligatures
automatically. For example, 'leaflet' should arguably not have an fl-ligature,
and this can be prevented with \nolig{leaflet}{leaf|...
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Can I kern classes in luatex?
fg can be kerned thus
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\directlua {
fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {
name = "ktest",
type = "kern",
data = {
["f"] ...
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Kerning between f and footnote mark
Adapting code from an answer by U. Fischer, I hoped this might fix a problem
with the footnote marks in IM Fell, which touch a preceding f. But it doesn't.
How should this be done?
\documentclass{...
