CTAN package update: microtype
Date: June 24, 2005 2:54:07 PM CEST
A package has been updated on tug.ctan.org and should soon appear at
your favorite mirror.
Thank you for the update,
Jim Hefferon
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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:
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changes in version 1.8:
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* New option `config' to load a different main
configuration file
* New option `unit' to measure protrusion factors
relative to a dimension instead of the character width
* New command \DeclareMicrotypeSetDefault to declare the
default font sets
* Renamed commands from \..MicroType.. to \..Microtype..
* If font substitution has occurred, the settings for the
substitute will be used instead of those for the
selected font
* Protrusion settings for AMS math fonts
* Protrusion settings for Times in LY1 encoding completed
* The `allmath' font set also includes U encoding
* 8-bit characters in the configuration files finally
work as advertised, even if made active by the
`csquotes' package
* When using the `ledmac' package, character protrusion
will work for the first time ever (requires pdfTeX
version 1.30 or later)
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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
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Maintainer | Robert Schlicht
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