As noted in , kerning, spacing, and tracking are turned off by default in microtype. Why is that? Are there good arguments against using it? What would be the pros and cons of activating it?  Now that we're at it, what are the pros and cons of the other options (protrusion, expansion, =auto)?
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According to the microtype manual, Kerning, Spacing and Tracking are not enabled by default in pdftex (>= 1.4). What are the reasons for this?
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I wanted to amplify the effect of specifying the font size. So I tried: {\tiny\tiny Super tiny text!} But that doesn't seem to work. I needed suggestions to achieve the same goal.
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Under TeX, when I write a line too long, it prints a fat black box at the end of the line.  That is probably a feature, but I dislike it.  How to turn that OFF? Is there a command-line option or something else?   I usually use LaTeX, but I have a complicated file which happens to be plain TeX.
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Sometimes it's annoying that LaTeX stretches and shrinks formulas in math mode. I know that one can prevent that with ${ ... }$, but I have a big document (~100 pages) and I don't want to check every formula and fix it (not to mention complication of the code). So, is there a way to just fix spacing for every formula? I don't think that overall result will be so bad as long as I use microtype package.
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As of version 2.7 of luaotfload the support for font feature files (.fea) .  On the  Hans showed how to make font substitution work through Lua.  More examples are available in the latest ConTeXt distribution (, , , , , , )  In the past I have been using font feature files to adjust the kerning of fonts on-the-fly.  From Hans' example it is not clear to me how to adjust kerning in the new syntax.  The below example does not work as intended.  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec} \directlua{ fonts.handlers.otf.addfeature {     name = "kern",     {         type = "pair",         data = {             [0x0041] = { [0x0056] = { false, { -200, 0, 0, 0 } } },         }     } } } \setmainfont{Latin Modern Roman} \begin{document} AV \end{document}   Can we have a comprehensive guide on how to adjust font features with LuaTeX with the fonts.handlers technique?    Related questions:  (These involve hooking into the luaotfload.patch_font callback)
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I have noticed that I hardly ever use the \negthinspace command  \!.  This is because I don't know how to use it properly (I do use other spacing commands quite a bit, because I can better understand the guidelines of when they might be useful). When might it be considered appropriate to use this spacing command?
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I know very little about typography. What are the differences in terms of OpenType vs. TrueType? I do know that they are types of formats to render fonts (correct me if I'm wrong). Are there limitations between OpenType and TrueType?
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With tracking activated for small caps, it can be a little bit hard to detect interword spaces. Cf. below.  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec}     \setmainfont{Libertine Serif}[         SmallCapsFeatures = {Letters = SmallCaps, LetterSpace = 5}] \begin{document} The title of my article is \textsc{This is the moment your life changed forever}. \end{document}     I'd like to increase the space between words in small caps, therefore, but only when words on either side are in small caps (i.e. there should be no extra space before the first word written in small caps or after the last word).  I would've thought I could do this by adding WordSpace = &lt;&gt; to SmallCapsFeatures, but this will change the interword space everywhere.  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{fontspec}     \setmainfont{Libertine Serif}[         SmallCapsFeatures = {Letters = SmallCaps, LetterSpace = 5, WordSpace = 5}] \begin{document} The title of my article is \textsc{This is the moment your life changed forever}. \end{document}
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I have an MXD that someone else has created. They have put some sort of lock on the extent that stops me from zooming and panning. I can't for the life of me work out how to turn it off.   Does anyone know?
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How are people showing keyboard &quot;glyphs&quot; on Super User? I looked at the Markdown help page and it didn't show anything regarding this. Here is  (question has been deleted since this was asked, so an archive link is provided instead):
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Is there a guide out there on how to customize the enumerate and itemize instances in my code?  (I'm using the Memoir class in LaTeX for Windows, and I have the enumitem package included.)  I want to mess with the margins and spacings to make my lists look a little less "LaTeX-default"...
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Without any doubt there are fontsize switches in the form of control sequences (described  for instance.) But, from time to time I ran into code examples where environment versions of those were used, e.g. \begin{small}...\end{small}. After testing those successfully I began to incorporate them into my TeX vocabulary.  A few days ago @GonzaloMedina commented on one of my answers that those environments do not exists and constructions relying on them work by pure coincidence. Then I tried to find out more about those ominous environments. Ominous because they don't seem to be somehow documentated. (The only thing I found that tried to explain them in a somehow systematical manner was some Wikibooks resource.)  Are these environments real or not?
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Is there a way to turn off the boxes around the icons in Unity?  Clarification: I do not mean the backlight color -- there are plenty of questions about turning that off. I want the icons, and just the icons, to appear in the Unity bar, without any lights and shadows and borders. Can this be done?
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Is there any way to automatically remove any indentation of text right after \includegraphics or a \begin{center} environment is used ? Consider the following MWE pertaining to the use of \begin{center}:  \documentclass[12pt,a4paper]{article} \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{graphicx} \begin{document} Some text... \includegraphics{some_graphic.png} Moar text...  \begin{center} Some centered text... \par\end{center}  Moar text...  \end{document}   I don't want any of the "moar text" to be automatically indented. Using each time a \noindent is not an option.  ( answered question of mine might be of relevance, since there it is explained how to remove indentation of those lines start star with a specific object - in contrast here indentation has to be removed from those lines which are after some specific objects.)  Thanks a lot for any help!
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This is a follow-up question to:   In order to know which ligatures I might consider disabling (I have in mind microtype's \DisableLigatures command; some important notes about selective disabling of ligatures are found under ), knowledge about which ligatures might be applied will be very useful. Which ligatures do the fonts used in my document offer?
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Sometimes, assume our document contain many long words, TeX may generate some hyphenation at the end of line. But it really hinder our smooth reading. Although I know we can add the hyphenation rule at the preamble. It can't reduce hyphenation number but effect the hyphenation position. It is said that microtype package can give us more compact output. But it require expert level to tuning the parameter.
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Currently I'm creating a pocketwatch, but im having a difficulty in spacing out the text evenly, as can see here:    If I tried to space it out by scaling with x, this happens:   Is there any way I could evenly space out the text without deforming the text or adding spaces for every text?