Text Formatting ⇒ How to change space between letters, for extended words (kerning) ?

[Cham]

I would like to add an extended effect to a warning sign in the margin. Here's a nice MWE example to work with :

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,nofootinbib,notitlepage,tightenlines]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[total={6.5in,10in},centering,left=1in,top=0.75in,bottom=0.5in,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}
 
\begin{document}
 
\section{Some section title}

\Blindtext
 
\newpage
 
\blindtext
 
\newwatermark*[allpages,angle=90,color=gray!25,scale=1.5,textalign=center,height=\paperheight,width=\paperwidth,xpos=-100,ypos=0]{\bfseries\sffamily TOP SECRET}
 
\subsection{Subsection title}
 
\Blindtext
 
\end{document}

Now, the TOP SECRET warning on the left margin of the second page would be better looking if it was vertically extended a bit. How can I achieve this ? Is there an "extended" command in LaTeX ?

[cgnieder]

Package microtype (which is always a good addition to a LaTeX document because of its many micro-typographic improvements even with its standard settings) provides \textls for this.

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\RequirePackage[l2tabu,orthodox]{nag}
\documentclass[10pt,letterpaper,nofootinbib,notitlepage,tightenlines]{revtex4-1}
\usepackage[total={6.5in,10in},centering,left=1in,top=0.75in,bottom=0.5in,includefoot]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\usepackage[dvipsnames,table]{xcolor}
\usepackage{blindtext}
\usepackage[printwatermark]{xwatermark}

\usepackage{microtype}

\begin{document}
 
\section{Some section title}
 
\Blindtext
 
\newpage
 
\blindtext
 
\newwatermark*[allpages,angle=90,color=gray!25,scale=1.5,textalign=center,height=\paperheight,width=\paperwidth,xpos=-100,ypos=0]{\bfseries\sffamily\textls[100]{TOP SECRET}}
 
\subsection{Subsection title}
 
\Blindtext
 
\end{document}

[Cham]

Wow ! Thanks a lot !

I do use always the microtype package in all of my LaTeX documents. Its fine tuning is great !