On Tue, Nov 9, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Guenter Milde <mi...@users.berlios.de>wrote:
> On 2010-11-09, Rob Oakes wrote: > > > I would specifically focus on XeTeX. XeTeX in particular, as it uses = > > system fonts, supports OpenType, and is generally awesome. The newest = > > version (released in TeX Live 2010) even has support for microtypography > = > > and margin kerning. > > TeXLive 10 now also has a workable version of LuaTeX with even better > microtypography support. But in both cases this is still beta code. > Especially, mikrotype does not work (yet) out-of-the-box with "arbitrary" > fonts. > > Rob, do you have any advice or pointers to sites explaining how to use margin kerning in XeTeX? The notes posted by J Kew on the mailing list and on the XeTeX wiki are way too cryptic for me. Also, am I correct in thinking that microtypography's font expansion (which greatly improves paragraph layout, in my opinion) is still not working in XeTeX? Cheers, Stefano >