2013/12/8 Patrick Gundlach <[email protected]>
> > > >> In this particular case I meant availability of microtypography > >> features like protrusion/expansion. > > > > Even that was introduced in PDFTeX which was released long before > > InDesign that were first released in 2002. > > 1999, if my memory is not broken. (Just found a magazine from 1999 where > it was mentioned. It had the code name „K2“ until then.) > > I don't know if it had hz program in it at that time. > > The microtypography extensions were part of Hàn Thế Thành's PhD thesis, which was published in October 2000. InDesign's features can eventually be traced back to the hz-program, which is as early as 1988. In fact, Hàn Thế Thành mentions both the hz-program and InDesign in his thesis ( http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/thesis.pdf).
