Add kerning correction before capital V

Question

Kerning correction works if the capital letter is in front of the small letter. The other way round spaces seems uneven.

Take for example the space between the e and V in the word PeVatron. It seems to be bigger than the space between V and a. How to automatically make both spaces the same width? (without manually inserting \kern, \hskip etc.)

The happens also within units, like kV etc.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{siunitx}

\begin{document}

PeVatron

\si{\kilo\volt}


\end{document}

tex has no control of inter-letter kerns they are specified by the font designer in the font metrics so depend totally on the font in use. Knuth was probably not thinking of camel cased words when tuning the kerning for computer modern — David Carlisle, Apr 23 '19 at 16:30

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 23 '19 at 17:34

TeX has no control of inter-letter kerns, they are specified by the font designer in the font metrics so depend totally on the font in use. As lowercase-uppercase doesn't occur in normal text, it is quite likely that such combinations were not even considered when tuning the kerning of some fonts.

You could in theory make a virtual font which used the same underlying font but with additional kerns specified but that is quite a lot of work. There are also other possibilities if you use lualatex or (in a more restricted way) xelatex).

Add kerning correction before capital V

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