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This post is related to the question asked in How to Increase the Space Between a Letter and Its Apostrophe with Cabin.

Consider the code

\documentclass[12pt]{book}
\usepackage[sfdefault]{cabin}
\usepackage{csquotes}

\begin{document}
\thispagestyle{empty}
\noindent \enquote{When I asked him why nobody goes there anymore, he replied \enquote{because it's \textit{too} crowded.}}
\end{document}

which yields

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In the aforementioned post, it was suggested that to increase the space between a letter and its associated apostrophe when using the cabin font, one may simply, for example, do this: it\mbox{'}s, which seems to accomplish the task for the specific problem at hand.

On the other hand, how would one obtain the desired objective in the general case; that is, when using, say, nested quotes using \enquote commands?

More specifically, when compiling with pdflatex:

QUESTION: Is there, perhaps, a general macro that may be employed when using the cabin font to slightly increase the space between (i) the letter and the apostrophe e.g. in it's; and (ii) to increase the space between the closing single quote and the closing double quote, such as in, it's too crowded'''?

Thank you.

QUESTION:

DDS
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    the space between apostroph and s is a font "feature", so report it to the font maintainer. The space between quotes is a csquotes command and can e.g. be changed with \makeatletter \AtBeginDocument{\def\csq@thequote@kern{0.2em}}. – Ulrike Fischer Jan 16 '23 at 14:57
  • This doesn’t solve your problem, but it’s worth noting that the version of Cabin in TeX Live is rather old. – Thérèse Jan 16 '23 at 15:59
  • @UlrikeFischer Many thanks for pointing out the \makeatletter \AtBeginDocument{\def\csq@thequote@kern{0.2em}} fix, which takes care of the enquote dilemma. – DDS Jan 16 '23 at 17:08
  • @Thérèse Thank you for your note regarding the version of Cabin in Tex Live. – DDS Jan 16 '23 at 17:10

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