I would love to try this out, but i work using miktex2.8 on a windows 7(64) where are instructions how to compile this (or even better download a build) on the MS platform ?
Avi On Mon, May 3, 2010 at 2:12 AM, Jonathan Kew <jonat...@jfkew.plus.com>wrote: > For those who like to live on the cutting (bleeding?) edge, there is a new > version of xetex available in the source repository. Version 0.9996.0 is now > available from the svn repository at: > > http://scripts.sil.org/svn-public/xetex/BRANCHES/microtype > > This version supports "character protrusion", also known as margin kerning. > The character protrusion feature is enabled by setting the parameter > \XeTeXprotrudechars, equivalent to pdftex's \pdfprotrudechars. > > The protrusion values are set using \lpcode and \rpcode. For TFM fonts, > these work in the same way as the pdftex versions; for non-TFM (i.e. native > TrueType/OpenType) fonts, they accept either a Unicode character code > (prefixed by the keyword "unicode"), a glyph name (prefixed by "name"), or a > glyph number. Thus, in the example: > > \font\x = "Charis SIL" at 10pt > > \rpcode \x unicode "2C = 100 > \rpcode \x name "comma" = 100 > \rpcode \x 15 = 100 > > the three \rpcode lines all have the exact same effect, as the comma glyph > in this font has glyph ID 15. > > In most cases, setting character protrusion values via Unicode codepoints > will be the simplest and most robust approach; glyph names and glyph IDs are > provided for cases such as contextual forms that are not directly accessible > via Unicode character codes. > > Note that LaTeX packages such as pdfcprot and microtype will not > automatically work with this feature, but it should be possible to update > them to recognize the new xetex version and handle it appropriately without > too much difficulty. > > Many thanks to Han The Thanh for his work on this! > > JK > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > Subscriptions, Archive, and List information, etc.: > http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/xetex > -- -------------------------------------------------------- Avi Wollman אבי וולמן http://www.google.com/profiles/avi.wollman --------------------------------------------------------
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