CTAN package upgrade: microtype

Date: January 26, 2005 6:11:56 PM CET

A package has been upgraded on tug.ctan.org and should soon make its way to your favorite mirror Thanks for the upload, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- CHANGES in v1.6: - - ------------------ * New option `factor� to influence protrusion resp. expansion of all characters of a font (set) * When pdfTeX is too old to expand fonts automatically, font expansion has to be enabled explicitly * Protrusion: + improved digits + added italic uppercase Greek letters + tuned CMR math letters * Use e-TeX extensions, if available - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .

microtype – Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection

The package provides a LaTeX interface to the micro-typographic extensions that were introduced by pdfTeX and have since also propagated to XeTeX and LuaTeX: most prominently, character protrusion and font expansion, furthermore the adjustment of interword spacing and additional kerning, as well as hyphenatable letterspacing (tracking) and the possibility to disable all or selected ligatures.

These features may be applied to customisable sets of fonts, and all micro-typographic aspects of the fonts can be configured in a straight-forward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are provided.

Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX, LuaTeX, or XeTeX. Font expansion works with pdfTeX or LuaTeX. The package will by default enable protrusion and expansion if they can safely be assumed to work. Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX or LuaTeX, while the adjustment of interword spacing and of kerning only works with pdfTeX. Letterspacing is available with pdfTeX or LuaTeX.

The alternative package ‘letterspace’, which also works with plain TeX, provides the user commands for letterspacing only, omitting support for all other extensions.

Package	microtype
Version	3.1b 2024-03-29
Copyright	2004–2024 Robert Schlicht
Maintainer	Robert Schlicht

CTAN package upgrade: microtype

microtype – Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection

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