The preloaded packages is babel, graphics, lmodern, frontenc, inputenc, theorem, amsmath, amsfonts, amssymb and hypreref according to the documentation.
I dont know which packages thats loading fonts, except amsfonts.
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The Computer Modern and the Latin Modern fonts (loaded by lmodern) indeed exhibit this behavior when used with T1 encoding, unlike the default OT1 encoding. Here is a discussion alongside a good solution that uses the microtype package:
http://groups.google.de/group/comp.text ... 13f69e639d
For the record: putin the preamble.
http://groups.google.de/group/comp.text ... 13f69e639d
For the record: put
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\usepackage{microtype}
\DisableLigatures{encoding = T1, family = tt*}