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I'm using XeTeX to mimic another document, but I only have a similar font which I stretch using the extend and letterspace options.

My main problem is though, that my font's spaces (U+0020) are only about half as wide as the original font's. I don't want to use U+2000 to U+200A, because I want to be able to change the exact width without re-editing everything. I defined

\newcommand{\K}{\hspace{1.2ex}}

But that's very verbose to use: Hello\K{}World

What I'd really like is an option that allows me to define a factor to stretch spaces by (it may disable TeX's automatic stretching, I don't use justified text or even automatic line breaks anyway), but I only found those for vertical spaces…

This works with pdflatex but not with my versions (3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 TeX Live 2009/Debian and 0.9997.4 TeX Live 2010) of xelatex. So a solution not using microtype would be nice… 
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[tracking=true]{microtype}

\DeclareMicrotypeSet*[tracking]{my}{font = */*/*/*/*}
\SetTracking[spacing={1000,,}]{font = */*/*/*/*}{1}

\begin{document}
 \lipsum[1]
\end{document}
pascal
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  • I don't relly understand how the "texlive" tag is relevant here. The question would be the same with MikTeX, for example. – mpg Jan 01 '11 at 12:58
  • I thought it was a problem with my XeTeX version, since updating to TeX Live 2010 solved another fontspec-related problem for me, but I remove the tag now – pascal Jan 02 '11 at 14:57

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In the case of pdflatex you can change \spaceskip (affects all fonts) or \fontdimen2 (affects only one font). In the case of xelatex: look up in the documentation of fontspec - section "interword space" - the option WordSpace.

Ulrike Fischer
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  • Great, thanks. Fontspec also supports the other options I used with plain \font: FakeBold=embolden, FakeStretch=extend, LetterSpace=letterspace (but with different units, for some reason) – pascal Jan 02 '11 at 15:01
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package microtype knows the \textls comamnd

  • I seem to have an issue with \textls and TikZ: ! Undefined control sequence. \tikz@invoke@collected@onpath ...mmand \tikz@temp[HERE] \pgf@stop \tikz@node@is@a@... but my line spacing has a problem, too, so I think that's unrelated. Thanks! – pascal Dec 30 '10 at 20:52
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    give a complete example, not only fragments –  Dec 30 '10 at 20:55
  • Solved that problem now, but I now have found out that spacing doesn't seem to work with XeTeX: (see question) When compiled using pdflatex spaces are double wide, but there's no effect using xelatex. I see that they are just now implementing it, back to LaTeX then… – pascal Dec 31 '10 at 12:53