> Protrusion isn't necessarily limited to punctuation characters.
For CJK, it definitely is.
> If CJK ideograms were indeed input using standard latex encoding
> schemes (inputenc and fontenc), there wouldn't be a
> problem. However, from what I gather, this doesn't seem to be the
> case.
Basically, it is, with a small addition...
> How are the subfonts determined?
In case the macro [EMAIL PROTECTED] is defined, it contains the current
subfont name.
> I guess, this is transparent to the user, ie., he doesn't have to
> (or cannot) choose the subfont himself, but it's all done by CJK
> internally?
Yes.
> This, again, would be something necessary to re-model in microtype.
The modifications should be minor, however.
> Provided CJK users are interested (and someone would help creating
> the protrusion settings), I can have a closer look at all this --
> however, not before the end of the year.
Honestly, I'm not sure whether it is worth the troubles, since many
aspects of CJK typography can't be handled by standard LaTeX. My
package is basically meant to support CJK snippets within a text using
a Western language (more or less).
Werner
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