CTAN has a new package: microtype
Date: September 11, 2004 3:26:37 PM CEST
A new package has been installed on tug.ctan.org and should soon get to
your favorite mirror.
Thanks for the upload,
Jim Hefferon
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The following information was provided by the package's contributor.
Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of
pdfTeX
License type: lppl
Announcement text given by the package's contributor:
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The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's
micro-typographic extensions: character protrusion and font expansion.
It allows to restrict character protrusion and/or font expansion to a
certain set of fonts, and to configure micro-typographic aspects of the
fonts in a straight-forward and flexible way.
Settings for various fonts are provided.
Note: Font expansion and character protrusion only works with the pdfTeX
compiler, at least version 0.14f, resp. version 1.20a, for automatic font
expansion.
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You can have a look at the package at
http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror
of CTAN that is near to you; see
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors
microtype – Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection
The package provides a LaTeX interface to the micro-typographic
extensions that were introduced by pdfTeX and have since also propagated
to XeTeX and LuaTeX: most prominently, character protrusion and font
expansion, furthermore the adjustment of interword spacing and
additional kerning, as well as hyphenatable letterspacing (tracking)
and the possibility to disable all or selected ligatures.
These features may be applied to customisable sets of fonts, and all
micro-typographic aspects of the fonts can be configured in a
straight-forward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are provided.
Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX, LuaTeX, or XeTeX.
Font expansion works with pdfTeX or LuaTeX. The package will by default
enable protrusion and expansion if they can safely be assumed to work.
Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX or LuaTeX, while the adjustment of
interword spacing and of kerning only works with pdfTeX. Letterspacing
is available with pdfTeX or LuaTeX.
The alternative package ‘letterspace’, which also works with plain TeX,
provides the user commands for letterspacing only, omitting support for all
other extensions.
| Package | microtype |
| Version | 3.1b 2024-03-29 |
| Copyright | 2004–2024 Robert Schlicht
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| Maintainer | Robert Schlicht
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