TypoG – Typographic Fine-Tuning for LaTeX

LaTeX package typog provides macros for (micro-)typographic enhancements; it covers a variety of topics:

• Precise hyphenation control
• Disable/break ligatures
• Manual italic correction
• Extra kerning for slash and hyphen
• Raising selected characters (e.g. hyphen, en-dash, and em-dash)
• Adjusting the vertical position of itemize's labels
• Aligning of the last line of a paragraph
• Filling of the last line last line of a paragraph
• Word spacing control
• Microtype front-end
• Slightly sloppy paragraphs
• Vertically partially-tied paragraphs
• Breakable displayed equations
• Setspace front-end
• Smooth ragged-right paragraphs

Moreover typog provides an environment to flag interesting parts of the information deluge typically accumulating in a LaTeX log-file and an associated tool, typog-grep, that selectively retrieves these parts.

Installation

The minimally necessary files to install typog are typog.ins and typog.dtx. Running LaTeX on typog.ins in particular produces typog.sty:

    latex typog.ins

After extraction from typog.dtx place typog.sty in a directory mentioned in your TEXINPUTS paths or copy it into one of the directories for your LaTeX installation's sty-files and run mktexlsr or equivalent.

To build the documentation it is easier to use the GNU Makefile:

    make

To construct the manual typog.pdf or the usage example typog-example.pdf a working METAPOST installation and some POD utilities of a Perl distribution are required. Cautious users can run

    make tool-check

ahead to verify that the required utilities are installed and working. For an overview over the most important Makefile targets use

    make help

Usage

Load the package with the usual incantation

    \usepackage{typog}

See Section 2 of the package documentation for available options.

Documentation

The package documentation can be found online.

Credits

Typog is written by Ch. L. Spiel <cspiel@users.sourceforge.org>.

License

Released under the LaTeX Project Public License v1.3c or later.