Character protruding with xelatex
marcelsp...@gmail.com
I create my pdfs with xelatex because I use the fontspec package which
makes it possible to easily use all your system fonts. No conversion
of the fonts is needed. Really great to see my text in Gentium. :)
But I want also character potruding to make the result even better.
The package pdfprot can do that but needs pdflatex. But if I use
pdflatex I can't use fontspec so I have to convert each font I use.
Does anyone has a solution for me?
Marcel
Will Robertson
> But I want also character potruding to make the result even better.
> The package pdfprot can do that but needs pdflatex.
The more modern package to do this is "microtype" :)
It's got some great features -- well worth the update over pdfprot.
> But if I use
> pdflatex I can't use fontspec so I have to convert each font I use.
> Does anyone has a solution for me?
'Fraid not. pdfTeX and XeTeX in this regard are completely orthogonal.
I agree, it would be great to get margin kerning (and, even better,
font expansion) in XeTeX but it's a non-trivial exercise to add those
features to the engine. Maybe one day!
Will