[XeTeX] shrinkability and stretchability of interword space with default monotype font

[Herbert Schulz]

> On Jan 24, 2016, at 8:16 AM, jfbu <jfbu at free.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> some years ago I noticed that the interword space with the 
> default monotype font had some stretchability and shrinkability,
> which results in problems in verbatim environments when
> the line is long enough to go into the right margin.
> 
> I raised an issue there
> 
> https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/139
> 
> which was not very well formulated, and besides I probably
> posted at the wrong place, as this isn't a fontspec issue, 
> as stressed again by recent comment by David there:
> 
> https://github.com/wspr/fontspec/issues/139#issuecomment-174298868
> 
> Should I raise an issue on http://sourceforge.net/p/xetex/bugs/ ?
> 
> please CC to my address as I don't currently subscribe to the list,
> 
> best,
> 
> Jean-François

Howdy,

Interestingly, if I specifically set the mono font, via  \setmonofont{Latin Modern Mono}, spacing is fine.

Note: to call the otf versions by name under OS X I've copied the texmf-dist/fonts/opentype directory to ~/Library/Fonts.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)