How to change character spacing in LaTeX (i.e. to produce "w i d e ")

[Tasho Statev Kaletha]

Hi there,

I've been cruising around the net for several days to find out how to
make LaTeX to typeset a word so that there is a space between every two
characters, making it appear wider (the typographical term is called
"spacing", as far as I know). The problem is that I need a way that the
hyphenation patterns are preserved and the font currently in use is
unchanged. I'll be glad to program it myself, but I have no idea how to
get the hyphenation information for a given word and process it.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance,

Tasho
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[Ralf Stubner]

"Tasho Statev Kaletha" <tasho.new...@web2news.net> writes:

[see subject]

You could use the soul package, see
<URL:http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=letterspace>.

cheerio
ralf

[Tasho Statev Kaletha]

Hi Ralf,

thanks very much for the help. I lost quite much time looking for this
package. It is just what I needed. There is only a small problem
concerning the hyphenation of german words containing umlauts (öüä,
etc). Sometimes, such words are not hyphenated at all and even the
manual hyphenation fails. I hope I can tackle this problem.

Thank you very much.
Regards, Tasho

[Lars Madsen]

Tasho Statev Kaletha wrote:
> Ralf Stubner wrote:
>
>>"Tasho Statev Kaletha" <tasho.new...@web2news.net> writes:
>>
>>[see subject]
>>
>>You could use the soul package, see
>><URL:http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=letterspace>.
>>
>>cheerio
>>ralf
>
>
> Hi Ralf,
>
> thanks very much for the help. I lost quite much time looking for this
> package. It is just what I needed. There is only a small problem
> concerning the hyphenation of german words containing umlauts (öüä,
> etc). Sometimes, such words are not hyphenated at all and even the
> manual hyphenation fails. I hope I can tackle this problem.
>
> Thank you very much.
> Regards, Tasho

mostly the usage of \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} helps (we have the same
problem in danish). Now (hopefully) the special gernam letters behafe
like normal letters and not just combined characters.

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[Tasho Statev Kaletha]

Lars Madsen wrote:
>
> mostly the usage of \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} helps (we have the same
> problem in danish). Now (hopefully) the special gernam
> letters behafe
> like normal letters and not just combined characters.

Hi Lars,

thanks for the hint. Now everything works perfect.

Bye, Tasho