Questions tagged [microtype]
{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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Highlight underfull boxes
Overfull \hboxes can be highlighted/marked in the output document by enabling draft=true or overfullrule=true in the \documentclass settings.
Furthermore, slightly overfull or underfull horizontal ...
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microtype + \babelposthyphenation: Why does lowering a hyphenation penalty at one position break the word at another position?
Running the code
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}
\textwidth=109mm
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage[ngerman]{babel}
\setmainfont{TeX Gyre Termes}
\usepackage[babel=true,verbose=errors]{microtype}
% \...
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Why does the microtype package shift the centering in a memoir-altered table of contents?
I created a table of contents that centers the parts and suppresses the page number entry. (See How would I center an entry in the table of contents and suppress the page number entry?)
Update 1: I ...
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Prevent loading microtype mt-fontname.cfg
I am using only lualatex, but I believe this question pertains to any engine. I have looked at the microtype docs (both user and code), and even looked in the package code, to no avail.
Unless ...
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LuaLaTeX with OpenType and microtype, create microtype configuration on the fly?
I am using LuaLaTeX (>=2022), OpenType fonts, microtype. Platform is Linux. I have permission to write files in the same directory (or subdirectory) as my main *.tex document. I cannot use --shell-...
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Use \fauxsc if small caps not available
This is a follow-up to Use \fauxsc if small caps not avaiaible
I need to use the Chivo font but, for unknown reasons, when package microtype is used, only the first invocation of \textsc works as ...
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How to add stretch or shrink (plus or minus) to imported graphics?
I am using the packages graphicsx, fontspec, and microtype.
I have imported a scalable vector graphics .svg image into my document via \includegraphics[height=\heightof{0123456789}]{myimage.pdf} where ...
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Why does the microtype protrusion feature sometimes lead to warnings and bad boxes?
I've prepared a MWE example to demonstrate the issue. In the MWE, I've loaded the microtype package with the default settings with the fontspec package with the original Charter font. When I compile ...
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How to justify the last line of a footnote in microtype style?
(I’m using the microtype package.)
I wanted to justify the last line of a footnote because it was very close to be full. Here is what it looked like:
The first two lines are from the same footnote, ...
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No protrusion into left margin with Nordic quotation marks with microtype, babel and csquotes
I want opening quotation marks to protrude into the left margin. And all is fine and dandy as long as I use English, but Nordic languages use \textquotedblright (”) for both opening and closing quotes....
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Can I use microtype locally?
I have some text which I am not allowed to change, but as it is it produces overfull boxes. Look at the following examples.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
\begin{document}
Examples of ...
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Unknown character microtype.cfg/397(protrusion) [duplicate]
My book in Ukrainian. I use font Kraskario. By compilation, get long list of error
Package microtype Warning: Unknown slot number of character
(microtype) `\'s'
(microtype) ...
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Why microtype adds small extra indentation at the first line of verbatim and how to remove it?
Here is the code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
\begin{verbatim}
+++
+++
+++
+++
\end{verbatim}
\end{document}
It renders as such (notice a small indentation at the ...
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How to change space between all letters?
I want to change the default spacing between all letters in the document to be a little bigger. That is I want to be able to manually choose how far apart all letters should be. Should I change the ...
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How do I adjust kerning in my section macros
How do I insert \textls in my section macros to apply the kerning defined in my \microtype command?
\documentclass[12pt]{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage[tracking = true, letterspace = 100]...
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When microtype is loaded, tabular's content displayed identically in ordinary tabular but not in tabularray's tabular
In the following MCE, “Foo : Bar” is displayed (almost) the same way both inside an ordinary tabular tabular and inside a tblr tabular:
\documentclass[varwidth]{standalone}
\usepackage{tabularray}
% \...
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Another font for italic, and Open Features
Xelatex
I can set special font for italics so
\setmainfont[ItalicFont={Ropa Mix PTT}]{Theano Old Style}
I can set Open features, or Letter spacing so:
\newfontfamily{\notefnt}{Slopes}[LetterSpace=8....
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Strange interaction of \tagform@ and microtype
Consider the following example, in which I'm using \tagform@ to mimic the look of \eqref when trying to add a prime symbol to the equation number.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\...
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Cabin Font, Microtype, and Lualatex Produce Smallcaps---but not with Tracking=True
In the following MWE, I am using Cabin as the main font and compiling with lualatex.
Remark: I do not believe that this is a duplicate with Smallcaps don't work if fontspec's microtype is used ...
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How to resolve this message, Package microtype Warning: Unable to apply patch `eqnum'
While using elsarticle-num.tex, I tried to disable hyphenation and make text in justifying alignment (horizontal-alignment) as MS-Word. \usepackage{microtype} is fine to make less hyphenation, there ...
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Microtypography status in LuaTeX
According to this table from the microtype manual, the current support of microtypography in the TeX engines is as follows:
Nevertheless, TeX.SX is full of LuaTeX workarounds in specific cases for ...
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How to set the "correct" tracking with fontspec and microtype (LuaLaTeX)
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 ...
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How to limit scope of microtype's letterspacing command \textls to non-math environment?
Package microtype has the command \textls to manipulate letterspacing in an ad hoc manner. While its use is usually frowned upon by typographists, according to microtype's user manual (p 23 footnote), ...
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Extra horizontal space with titlesec's runin style and microtype
Consider the following example:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\usepackage{parskip}
\usepackage{microtype}
\titleformat{\section}[runin]{}{}{0pt}{}
\titlespacing{\section}{0pt}{\...
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footnote inside csquotes' blockquote: fails if microtype is loaded
The following MCE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{csquotes}
% \usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
\blockquote{foo\footnote{bar.}.}
\end{document}
compiles like a charm but it is not the case ...
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Is there microtype support for plain TeX?
Is there code to make the microtypography primitives, particularly font expansion, usable with the plain TeX format running with native PDF-output engines (namely pdfTeX and LuaTeX)?
I don't think the ...
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Indentation/protrusion of first line in redefined quote with microtype
MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\renewenvironment{quote}
{\list{}{\leftmargin0.5cm \rightmargin0cm}
\item\relax\fontsize{9.8pt}{11.4pt}\selectfont}
{\endlist}
\begin{document}
\...
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Optimising microtype for variable fonts
One can find the following passage on p. 27 of the microtype package documentation:
Don’t use too large a value for expansion. Font expansion is a feature that is
supposed to enhance the typographic ...
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Roman numerals in TOC are not in smallcaps - microtype problem with memoir
I'm using the memoir class for typesetting a book. In the \frontmatter I have a chapter with a section and a subsection.
My problem is that, in the TOC, the page number of the chapter appears in ...
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Overrunning Sentences within Emphasized Text When Using Microtype and Compiling with Lualatex [closed]
Consider the code which is to be compiled with Lualatex:
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}
\begin{document}
\large
\emph{\lipsum[1]}
\end{document}
which ...
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\blx @keyaliases@1 entry could not be found in the database
The compilation of the following MCE:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{titleps}
% \usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{biblatex}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\addbibresource{biblatex-examples.bib}
\...
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Activate microtype-Protrusion for superscript old style numbers with LuaLaTex
I’ve been playing around with microtype’s protusion-capabilities and LuaLaTeX, but faced a problem regarding old-style superscript numbers. The regular numbers protrude. This code
\documentclass{...
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Microtype warnings (~100) with fontsetup (NewComputerModern)
I have been using the microtype package together with the fontsetup package.
The document seems to compile normally. Protrusion and expansion also seem to be working, but I usually get around 100 ...
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Problem using acmart class with smartref package
I use the smartref package. I would like to use it together with \documentclass{acmart}, but I get an error message when I run LaTeX on the document below for the second time.
The error is on the ...
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Microtype quotation marks in itemize not aligned properly at begin of an item
A fellow LaTeX user ran into a problem using quotations inside an itemize/enumerate environment. When using automatic quotation marks from csquotes at the beginning of an item, the quotation mark is ...
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\usetagform incompatible with microtype?
It seems that \usetagform in mathtools package is incompatible with microtype package as can be seen in the following MWE:
\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{microtype}
\usepackage{mathtools}
\...
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Using custom sans serif fonts with pdfLaTex to facilitate microtype usage
I'm currently making an unofficial thesis/dissertation template for my college. There are some caveats to such an endeavour because of my college's formatting guidelines. One challenge is that the ...
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Microtype package v 3.0a with documentclass `book` in \maketitle: bug [duplicate]
I found a bug when I use microtype package v 3.0a with documentclass book in \maketitle macro.
% !TeX program = pdflatex
% !TeX encoding = utf8
\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{microtype}
\title{My ...
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\maketitle has stopped working, despite backing up data
Out of the blue I have started receiving the following errors (despite loading up previous versions of my files and/or bib. files from the cloud):
Runaway argument?
{\scantokens { \Huge {\bfseries {\@...
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microtype won't work in theorem environment, using Times New Roman
I'm using microtype package in my document. However, it won't fit to margin the text into the definition environment. Here is the code:
\documentclass[letterpaper]{article}
\usepackage[protrusion=true]...
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Overfull \vbox in list of figures since MiKTeX update
Since updating my MikTeX distribution, I am getting an overfull \vbox warning in the list of figures when the microtype package is loaded and the entry expands over more than a single line, as shown ...
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How to turn off microtype temporarily?
As a temporary workaround for the conflict between microtype and ctex, I need to disable microtype around the command \scshape. In old versions, there is a key disable for this (see this answer):
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microtype, csquotes active quotes and itemize interaction
I've met today a bad interaction between microtype, csquotes autoquotes, and the itemize environment, essentially leading to a "forgotten \endgroup" error.
A MWE:
\documentclass{article}
\...
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Closing quotation marks don't protrude into the right margin of bibliography with biblatex
I like how the microtype package handles character protrusion when I compile my LaTeX documents with LuaLaTeX. But I have noticed that this doesn't seem to work properly in the bibliography that the ...
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Conflict between microtype and syntax packages
While using the syntax package together with microtype, I stumbled on a strange error:
Missing font identifier.<to be read again>\chardef <TEST> ::= `
Missing number, treated as zero.<...
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\textls (from microtype) not working consistently for things in math mode
In the following code:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[letterspace= -150]{microtype}
\usepackage{amsmath}
\DeclareFontFamily{U}{BOONDOX-calo}{\skewchar\font=45 }
\DeclareFontShape{U}{BOONDOX-calo}...
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Using polyglossia, microtype and newcomputermodern with LuaLaTeX results in "0.0.0.0.0" being added
Using the packages polyglossia, microtype and newcomputermodern when compiling with LuaLaTeX leads to ".0.0.0.0.0" being added. This occurs at the beginning of the document and with section ...
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LuaLaTeX: ctex and microtype together produce errors when using "\scshape"
Consider the following MWE, to compile with LuaLaTeX:
%! TEX program = lualatex
\documentclass{article}
\RequirePackage[fontset=fandol]{ctex}
\usepackage{microtype}
\begin{document}
{\scshape Some ...
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Line-width distributed letter-spacing with \newcommand macros
I am using the soul package to produce "distributed" text. That is, text that is automatically spaced such that it fills the entire line. This works great, but now what I want to do is use a ...
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What are the pros and cons of using microtype or LuaTeX's inbuilt microtypography features?
Both the microtype package and LuaLaTeX appear to offer the ability to use protrusion and expansion for microtypographic improvement. However, as a recent convert to LuaLaTeX, I'm quite confused as ...
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