[OS X TeX] More pronounced margin kerning in TL 2004?

[Herb Schulz]

On 11/8/04 3:54 PM, "Bruno Voisin" <bvoisin at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi Herb,
> 
> Thanks for the tip. I've just tried the microtype package, with margin
> kerning only or with both margin kerning (aka character protrusion) and
> font expansion. Margin kerning only does indeed produce the same
> results as the code I had posted, based on protcode.tex, so I must have
> had weary eyes or been in some advanced hallucinogenic state.
> 
> Font expansion yields very nice results, I got all paragraphs set with
> practically no hyphenations (I use Lucida fonts too), which is exactly
> what I like (I *hate* hyphenation, when there are more than one or two
> per page say). Unfortunately this changed most page breaks, and for the
> present document I'm editing I can't deal with these changes right now
> -- not enough time. Plus there are apparently a number of settings to
> adjust, such as defining which encodings should be affected by
> expansion (like TS1 or not), whether math fonts are affected, whether
> italic fonts should be affected (by default they aren't), or even
> running a test file to determine, for each new font family, which
> settings are optimal. The microtype package has settings for several
> different families, but these don't include Lucida, though the default
> settings seem to fit it reasonably well.
> 
> Thanks for the tip again, I'll look into it more thoroughly as soon as
> time allows.
> 
> Bruno
> 

Howdy,

I'm happy with the results of font expansion using the microtype package
with Lucida Bright so far, but the expansion doesn't seem to work well with
the scaled Helvetica (helvet package) I use for the Sans Serif Font in
combination with other fonts. Don't know why, but I get garbage for glyphs
in the output.

I too am impressed by the uniform color and lack of hyphenation when using
the package. I'll have to fine tune it a bit but it's nice to be able to do
that too. Then I'll just make a small package with my adjustments.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest.com)

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