On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 10:12:49PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote: > 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).
I took the 2002 date from Wikipedia, apparently this is the first *Mac OS X* release, so I stand corrected. I’m of course aware that hz-program predates PDFTeX.
