For those experimenting with this: I have just updated the microtype branch
again, to v0.9997.0.
The keywords used to specify \lpcode and \rpcode values for native-font glyphs
have been changed to be more concise, and also more similar to forms used in
other contexts. Unicode character codes
On Tue, 4 May 2010 21:39:58 +0100, Jonathan Kew jfkth...@googlemail.com
wrote:
The keywords used to specify \lpcode and \rpcode values for native-font
glyphs have been changed ...
Since as I understand it, it's necessary to list each character that one
wants to allow to protrude, and since
than
by editing the font (which may not be legal).
John
- Original Message -
From: Jonathan Kew jonat...@jfkew.plus.com
To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms xetex@tug.org
Sent: Monday, May 03, 2010 12:12 AM
Subject: [XeTeX] experimental new xetex version
On 5/3/2010 2:00 AM, John Was wrote:
Excellent - does this mean that custom kerning from within XeTeX is
moving up the 'to-do' list? It seems to me to be in the same
general area (aesthetically though perhaps not technically): one
wants to fine-tune the spacing behaviour of specific
2010/5/3 Barry MacKichan barry.mackic...@mackichan.com:
Now that that has sunk in ;-) can I ask about the other feature of
PDFTeX, namely the ability to improve line breaking by (to my eye)
undetectable changes in the font size for a paragraph? Is there any plan
to port this to XeTeX?
IMHO
On Sun, May 02, 2010 at 10:06:31PM -0400, David J. Perry wrote:
Jonathan,
This is great news--thank you! There is also an OpenType feature
called Optical Bounds that is designed to do exactly this. My
understanding is that very few, if any, page layout programs support
this feature.
I would love to try this out, but i work using miktex2.8 on a windows 7(64)
where are instructions how to compile this (or even better download a build)
on the MS platform ?
Avi
On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Jonathan Kew jonat...@jfkew.plus.comwrote:
For those who like to live on the
For those who like to live on the cutting (bleeding?) edge, there is a new
version of xetex available in the source repository. Version 0.9996.0 is now
available from the svn repository at:
http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/BRANCHES/microtype
This version supports character
Many thanks to you and Han The Thanh.
Now that that has sunk in ;-) can I ask about the other feature of
PDFTeX, namely the ability to improve line breaking by (to my eye)
undetectable changes in the font size for a paragraph? Is there any plan
to port this to XeTeX?
In my opinion, once that is
