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In books from the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century, I realised, that sometimes names are highlighted by increasing the spacing inside these words.

Here an Example from G. Frege's "Begriffsschrift" enter image description here

where the name "Leibniz" is highlighted in this particular way. Is there a name for this style of typesetting? How can it be achieved in LaTeX?

I am interested in a solution for all flavours of LaTeX but a solution which is compatible with XeTeX and fontspec would be the preferred one.

Christian
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    There is also https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/82887/xelatex-space-between-letters specifically for XeLaTeX. – Marijn Apr 14 '21 at 20:03
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    In addition to @Marijn 's links, to answer your question of whether there's a name for this, it's called Sperrsatz in German (which I presume you might have knowledge of since you're quoting from a German language text). – chsk Apr 14 '21 at 20:04
  • @Marijn I was able to use the answers to these questions to write a command which does what I want but I am not sure whether this is an exact duplicate. – Christian Apr 14 '21 at 20:09
  • If it's a near duplicate (very similar question, main component of solution the same) then it also qualifies as a duplicate. If you think your new command is an improvement or useful extension of the answers to the other questions then you can consider posting a separate answer there. If your current question is closed as a duplicate then new visitors following the duplicate can benefit from your solution. – Marijn Apr 14 '21 at 20:13
  • @Marijn I am fine with marking it as duplicate. My solution should be obvious for everyone with a basic knowledge of "\newcommand" so I guess it does not really add value. – Christian Apr 14 '21 at 20:15

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