[OS X TeX] microtype.sty and german.sty

[Gerben Wierda]

 From the texlive list I gather two things:

1. german.sty is notorious for causing this kind of problem. use 
\usepackage[german]{babel} instead
2. A newer version of microtype has a workaround. It has been added to 
my i-Package which has been updated. There are more changes. The new 
version is available from the *EXPERIMENTAL* i-Directory.

G

On 13 Nov 2004, at 15:34, Herb Schulz wrote:

> On 11/13/04 6:23 AM, "Michael Hoppe" <mh at michael-hoppe.de> wrote:
>
>> Dear TeXers,
>>
>> running that document
>>
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>> \documentclass[12pt]{article}
>> \usepackage{german}
>> \usepackage[DVIoutput,expansion=false]{microtype}
>>
>> \begin{document}
>> a
>> \end{document}
>> %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
>>
>> either under 2003 or 2004, gives me a
>>
>> "Package microtype Warning: Character number @tempc  larger than 255!
>> Ignoring i
>> t on input line 5."
>>
>>    But if microtype.sty is loaded *before* german.sty, the file is
>> processed flawlessly.  Am I doing sth, wrong?
>>
>> Michael
>>
>
> Howdy,
>
> I don't know if this is completely relevant but the documentation for
> microtype has a caveat that the package should be loaded as early as
> possible.
>
> ``Load the microtype package as early as possible. The package will 
> only see
> fonts the first time they are selected. If a font has been called 
> before
> this package is loaded, it will not be set up for protrusion or 
> expansion.
> (This does not apply to the default font, though.) ''
>
> Good Luck,
>
> Herb Schulz
> (herbs at wideopenwest.com)
>
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