On Friday, August 19, 2005 1:55 AM Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> There are a couple of new features in the next version of pdftex. One of
> them is the ability to automatically add a kern before punctuation,
> which is important for french. So ... we can get rid of active : ; ! and
> ? characters which is a good thing.
> 
> I'll upload a version that supports this. The handling is called
> prespacing and the values are experimental. A test could look like:
> 
> \definefontsynonym[myfont][Serif][handling=prespacing]
> \definefont[whatever][myfont sa 1]
> \setupalign[spacing] % nospacing
> 
> \whatever look at this: we now have a proper spacing feature and, hurray,
> get rid of active punctuation!
> 
> but for document wide behaviour one should apply handling at the typeface
> level. 
> 
> You can turn it on/off with the setupalign command (or the
> align=... k/v
> in other commands)
> 
> A windows test binary can be found at:
> 
>    http://pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp/
> 
> just move the exe and pool file to the right place and make a format.
> 
> Hans

Are these new support files already at pragma site? Which files do I need?

Ulrich

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