[XeTeX] Microtypography?
Jonathan Kew
jonathan_kew at sil.org
Tue May 9 00:38:04 CEST 2006
On 24 Apr 2006, at 4:31 pm, Geoffrey Alan Washburn wrote:
> Are there any plans to implement something like pdfTeX's
> microtypographic features in some future release of XeTeX? Thanks.
I think I failed to reply to this, being otherwise occupied at the
time....
It's certainly something that would be interesting to explore, but
would be a significant amount of work... I don't think pdfTeX's
implementation would mesh easily with XeTeX's world of Unicode, the
character/glyph rendering model, OpenType "smart fonts", etc.
So, "in some future release"? Yes, perhaps. Concrete plans or
timescale at this point? No, sorry.
JK
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