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Sorry, I don't know the name of this typographic effect, it's been years since I read The Elements of Typographic Style. This is more than kerning. I'm referring to the "tail" of the N going under the following letters. Or is it a particular font with this feature?

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The image is from page 2 of http://www.tsengbooks.com/images/6176s.pdf

I'll update the question if I learn the proper typographical term.

Thank you.

Update: as Lev Bishop indicated, the effect is called swash (wikipedia)

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It's a feature of the font. You can see the same thing with the Q in the 'swash' style of Minion Pro. Eg.,

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{MinionPro}
\begin{document}
\textsw{Queen}
\end{document}
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    You don't need any special engine. As I showed above, the MinionPro package sets up a swash style (accessed by \textsw{}) for the MinionPro fonts, even with latex or pdflatex. – Lev Bishop Aug 08 '10 at 14:30