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

[Bruno Voisin]

Le 9 nov. 04, à 17:51, Gary L.Gray a écrit :

> On Nov 9, 2004, at 11:43 AM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Le 9 nov. 04, à 17:40, Gary L.Gray a écrit :
>>
>>> I get the error:
>>>
>>> ! Missing font identifier.
>>> <to be read again>
>>>                    LY1/ptm/m/n/12
>>
>> Does it happen also if you use T1/TS1 encodings instead of LY1?
>
> Aha! No it doesn't -- then it seems to work perfectly. On the other 
> hand, now I am a little perplexed. I understood that LY1 is the 
> preferred encoding -- am I incorrect?

I think so, that LY1 is better. But T1 is more standard, so I imagine 
this is a bug in microtype, which possibly has not been tested as 
extensively with LY1 encoding as with T1. The explanation may be inside 
the doc 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf or 
in the config file 
/usr/local/teTeX/share/texmf.gwtex/tex/latex/microtype/mt-ptm.cfg, but 
I must admit I've been deterred from looking further at microtype by 
the number of settings and switches mentioned in the doc.

> In addition, all I did was change:
>
> \usepackage[LY1]{fontenc}
>
> to:
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}

I think you also need \usepackage{textcomp}, to make sure the § sign 
(aka \S), for example, is taken from the Lucida fonts and not from CM.

Bruno
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