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Letterspacing #257

Open rodrigoalcarazdelaosa opened 7 years ago

rodrigoalcarazdelaosa commented 7 years ago

As pointed out by the Tufte-LaTeX developers, Robert Bringhurst [1] suggests to slightly increase the spacing between the letters when setting strings of ALL CAPS or small caps. I wonder if the same improved letterspacing could be applied to metropolis. The source code for the updated letterspacing can be found in tufte-common.def.

Of course the difference may be negligible, but a bit of perfectionism is expected from us LaTeX users right?

[1] Robert Bringhurst. The Elements of Typography. Hartley & Marks, 3.1 edition, 2005. ISBN 0-88179-205-5.

matze commented 7 years ago

Interesting. I agree that we could improve ALL CAPS but I also had the impression that a font foundry probably knows best what letterspacing is appropriate for their smallcaps glyphs.

rodrigoalcarazdelaosa commented 7 years ago

You're probably right @matze. By the way, I didn't see this other issue #117, feel free to merge both (if it's possible). Also, when using XeLaTeX, the Tufte-LaTeX developers revert to soul package as implementation in XeTeX seems to be tricky. For pdfTeX v1.40+, the letterspace and the microtype packages are used. I am not sure if this helps with issue #117.