[OS X TeX] microtype problem

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Wed Nov 17 02:48:05 EST 2004


LOL.

Rule # 1: read the log.

G

On 17 Nov 2004, at 05:31, Gary L. Gray wrote:

>
> On Nov 16, 2004, at 6:37 PM, Bruno Voisin wrote:
>
>> Bruno Voisin wrote:
>>> In case you have expansion activated (it is by default): when you 
>>> open the produced PDF file in Adobe Reader (or Acrobat) and use 
>>> Cmd-D to see the list of fonts used, do you have several instances 
>>> of each font, followed by different numbers? If so, that would 
>>> indicate expansion does indeed work; if not, that would mean 
>>> expansion has not been applied. And does it change when you alter 
>>> the order in which packages are loaded (i.e. microtype before or 
>>> after the font selection packages)?
>>
>> I have been trying quickly. Both solutions
>>
>> 	\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>> 	\usepackage{textcomp}
>> 	\usepackage{lmodern}
>> 	\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}
>>
>> and
>>
>> 	\usepackage[protrusion=true,expansion=true]{microtype}
>> 	\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>> 	\usepackage{textcomp}
>> 	\usepackage{lmodern}
>>
>> work (I get in Adobe Reader many fonts with names such as 
>> LMRoman10-Regular-Extend_1010), though they seem to have slightly 
>> different effects, producing PDF files of different sizes. microtype 
>> is v1.3, I don't have the latest Gerben's i-Package installed.
>>
>> Just in case: did you check you don't have any personal addition 
>> somewhere inside ~/Library/texmf, that may be messing things up a 
>> bit?
>
> To Bruno, Herb, Gerben and everyone else who tried to help:
>
> The author of the microtype package kindly emailed me with some 
> suggestions, one of which prompted me to look in the log file after 
> typesetting. Much to my embarrassment, I discovered the following 
> lines:
>
> Package microtype Info: `draft' option active.
> (microtype)             Disabling all micro-typographic features.
> Package microtype Info: Generating PDF output.
>
> I must say that I now feel like a complete idiot. :-) As you can see, 
> it turns out that I had "draft" set as an option in:
>
> \documentclass[10pt,draft]{book}
>
> which turns off all microtype features.
>
> All of this could have been avoided had I just RTFM. :-)
>
> All the best,
>
> -- Gary
>
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