Text Formatting ⇒ suspend interword kerning?

[Meta002]

Problem: how to turn off inter-word kerning so the elements of a set display nicely.

Here is the MWE, showing both the problem and my ungainly hack (loses right-justification of the text). Does anyone know the correct way to do this?

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\documentclass[11pt]{memoir}
\usepackage{graphics}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setmainfont{LucidaBright}
\newfontfamily\menlosc[Scale=0.9]{Menlo}
\newcommand{\TBFN}[1]{{\menlosc #1}}   		
\settypeoutlayoutunit{in}
\typeoutlayout
\setstocksize{10in}{7in}
\settrimmedsize{\stockheight}{\stockwidth}{*}
\settypeblocksize{7.4in}{5.0in}{*}
\setlrmargins{0.7in}{*}{*}				
\setulmargins{1in}{*}{*}				
\setheadfoot{0.2in}{0.8in}				
\setheaderspaces{0.5in}{*}{*}
\checkandfixthelayout
 
\begin{document}

\noindent Problem: unattractive interword kerning inside the sets :

\begin{itemize}

\item For the xxxxx ‘\TBFN{β ∈ \{CIR DMD CRS\}}’, the set \TBFN{\{CIR DMD CRS\}} is called the \emph{xxxxxxxxxx}. 

\item When the  xxxxx  ‘\TBFN{β ∈ \{CIR DMD CRS\}}’ is employed as a xxxxxxxxxx, the xxxxxxxxxx is called the \emph{xxxxxxxxxx}. 

\end{itemize}

\noindent My hack. it works, but lack of right justification looks ugly:

\begin{itemize}

\item For the  xxxxx ‘\TBFN{β ∈ \{CIR DMD CRS\}}’, the set \TBFN{\{CIR DMD CRS\}} \\ is called the \emph{xxxxxxxxxx}. 

\item When the  xxxxx ‘\TBFN{β ∈ \{CIR DMD CRS\}}’ is employed as a \\ xxxxxxxxxx, the xxxxxxxxxx is called the \emph{xxxxxxxxxx}. 

\end{itemize}
										
\end{document}

[Johannes_B]

I cannot reproduce this, as i don't have the fonts.

You are talking about maths, right? Use math mode in LaTeX. That's what it was designed for.

[Stefan Kottwitz]

If you could reproduce the issue with a standard font, we could test it for improving.

I agree with Johannes: you need math kerning, thus math mode, in text mode you get text kerning. So, instead of "β ∈ ..." I would write $\beta\in ...$.

Stefan

[Meta002]

'Beta' and 'element-of' are Unicode chars that I use in verbatim listings input from files elsewhere in the text. \beta and \in might render the glyphs correctly, but I don't want to fight this battle if I can avoid it.

My best hope was to enclose the sets inside 'in-line' verbatim commands such as \verb. However, this didn't work. I've recently become familiar with the listings package; maybe its in-line verbatim capabilities will do the trick.

[Johannes_B]

You will need XeTeX or LuaTeX to render utf8-characters verbatim.

[Meta002]

I'm already using XeTeX, and it is doing a good job handling utf-8 characters that I read from a file and display verbatim. If I can master the art of inline verbatim display, the problem might be solved.