[OS X TeX] pdftex 1.20a and microtype?

Gerben Wierda Gerben.Wierda at rna.nl
Sat Oct 16 11:05:02 EDT 2004


On Oct 16, 2004, at 16:34, Gary L. Gray wrote:

> Having installed the TL 2004 distribution using Gerben's i-Installer, 
> I find myself wondering the best way to implement the new microtype 
> features. I either use the latin modern fonts via:
>
> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
> \usepackage{lmodern}
>
> or the Lucida fonts via:
>
> \usepackage[LY1]{fontenc} % Use this font encoding.
> \usepackage[expert,altbullet,lucidasmallscale]{lucidabr}
>
> and in both cases I always use the AMS-LaTeX packages.
>
> With that said, until installing the new (experimental) stuff from 
> Gerben, I would always use the pdfcprot package to get margin kerning. 
> Since he doesn't seem to have included the microtype package in his 
> distribution, I am wondering if it is the best choice moving forward.

Wait a very short while and it is in.

>  Some questions:
>
> (1) Should I now be using the microtype package for margin kerning?
>
> (2) In addition, should I be using the microtype package for font 
> expansion?
>
> (3) The pdfcprot package doesn't seem to do anything for Lucida and 
> the microtype package will not work at all. Is this to be expected? I 
> am assuming that this is because configuration files still need to be 
> created for Lucida (at least in the case of microtype).
>
> Thank you.
>
> All the best,
>
> -- Gary
>
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