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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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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Fixing bad kerning in an Adobe font
I own a couple of "professional" fonts from Adobe that shipped with the Creative Suite that I purchased some years ago. In my search for a nice text font for use in correspondence and longer texts, I ...
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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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Kerning acronyms in math mode like in normal text
Can I get acronyms like KL/LD nicely lining up in math without manually tweaking kerning? Using \mathit/\textit/\text seems inferior semantically (it diverges from the rest of math material if one ...
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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{...
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Bad math kerning in classicthesis if math is in the chapter title [closed]
With classicthesis as in the example-bundle given by Miede.
I only add some math to one of the chapter-titles and some math (shown below) to the body text. When math in the title of the chapter is ...
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How to Fix Protruding Em Dash (Koma Book Class)
I have a single line in a text that ends with an em dash that protrudes into the margin. I've tried to cut the line with \\; I've tried LuaLaTeX; I've tried enclosing the line with \sloppy{bad line ...
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Quotation marks too close with newtxtext
I couldn't find anything regarding my question.
I found that the quotation marks are too close to the text, especially with the newtxtext font I use. It's most visible at the closing quotes after ...
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Letterspacing in a colorbox in beamer
Preparing a beamer presentation with my own template, I wanted to change for a single slide that the foot line gets a white background (because I have a graphic that exceeds the margins). So I changed ...
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Kerning between $\uptau$ and subscript?
I'm trying to get a $\uptau$ with a right-hook at the bottom:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{upgreek}
\begin{document}
$\tau_X$
$\uptau_X$
\end{document}
Unfortunately, there doesn't seem ...
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Make negative spacing between letters and make them darker on the overlapping parts
I want to make number of the chapter to be as big as the paper. This is what I have achieved so far.
What I want is to make negative spaces between letters, so they overlap and the overlapping part ...
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Change kerning between math characters (prime and left parenthesis) in ConTeXt
I use ConTeXt and Lucida OTF fonts, and I would like to adjust the kerning in math between the prime and the left parenthesis. Let us look at this example:
\startluacode
fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature ...
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Disable kerning for math letters / CM fonts incoherent kerning for df and dj
The following example shows that, with default Computer Modern fonts, there is some kerning between ‘d’ and ‘f’, resp. between ‘d’ and ‘j’, when seen as mathematical variables:
\documentclass{minimal}...
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LuaLaTeX: fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature kerning pairs with unexpected behaviour
So I tried to adapt this answer: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/370469/75284 to all problematic neighbors of the narrow 1 and added the second group of kerning pairs, the ones that specify the ...
