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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The nature of the \sup operator
I am writing some notes for a very time-consuming job. I was wondering what kind of operator \sup is, or what its nature is, considering that it does not leave any space between itself and the curly ...
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How can I improve kerning between a non-italic opening quotation mark and some italic text?
When I'm typesetting a story, I might have a line of dialogue where the opening quotation mark is in the normal ("upright") font shape, but the beginning or all of the dialogue itself (for ...
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Kerning for function composition \circ f in math mode
I noticed that, in the many math fonts, the letter f looks asymmetrical when it is to the right of a binary operator. I think it is because the spacing is computed from the bottom tip of the f, ...
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Fix integral lower bound kerning in textstyle or smaller with unicode-math
When using unicode math, the lower bound of the integrals is very close to the integral symbol, see this example \documentclass{article} \usepackage{unicode-math} \begin{document} Lorem ipsum $\int_0^...
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Add a kerning pair for smallcaps lualatex
I want to add kerning for a letter combination of the small caps in the font I am using. Here a minimal example using one of the default fonts: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \...
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How to kern letters and put them higher or lower depending on the previous letter?
I want to generate a title in which E are following an R or a T. Since the font Trajan has a quite wide R and Tthis looks odd: My aim is to put the first E after the R a little bit higher and smaller ...
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MinionPro's kerning problem of comma and period with single and double quotation marks
Here is a kerning problem of comma and period with quotation marks: I tried the code following Kerning with Lualatex. But it does not seem that I have enough information to make it work. FYI, windows ...
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Proper footnote number marker kerning
Consider this example: \documentclass[11pt]{scrbook} \usepackage{fontspec} \usepackage{unicode-math} \setmainfont[SlantedFont=lmromanslant10-regular.otf]{lmroman10-regular.otf} \begin{document} \...
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Unexpected kerning after math mode in unicode-math
Without changing anything in the document, including the unicode-math package seems to modify the kerning of letters in math mode or at the boundary between math and regular text. Compare this example ...
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Kerning error around "l" in purchased font ("Better Sans")
I bought a font called "Better Sans" here: Better Sans at MyFonts . Used with LaTeX and LibreOffice, there is a kerning error, but used with Textmaker, Word and InDesign, no error occurs. ...
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How to typeset the "different set symbol" with \complement to handle proper kerning?
The question is related with this link, but not the same. Claim(Background): In "ISO-80000-2-2019", the "different set" symbol is just A\B: However, In China, the math textbook ...
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How to tweak this widebar implementation to allow nesting?
I am using the definition of \widebar from this answer by Hendrik Vogt. However, as the comment by Mankka mentions, nested uses such as \widebar{\widebar{x}} do not behave ideally: the bars are ...
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ConTeXt: adjust interword space for letterspacing
I find that ConTeXt's letterspacing command does not adjust the interword space the way I'd expect it to. As the letterspacing factor grows, it gets hard to tell words apart, as the spaces between ...
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Kerning for text in subscripts and superscripts in LuaLaTeX
LuaLaTeX, with unicode-math does not seem to use the text kerning for subscripts and superscripts. I however get the kerned V-A pair with pdfLaTeX (with amsmath). Is this a bug? \documentclass{article}...
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Irregular letterspacing in ConTeXt
Some words, when letterspaced in ConTeXt, yield irregular results. E.g.: \startTEXpage[offset=1em] \letterspacing[1]{RELATIVE} \stopTEXpage The behaviour seems to depend on the language (it doesn'...
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