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Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Dec 8 22:20:12 CET 2013


On Sun, Dec 08, 2013 at 10:12:49PM +0100, Philipp Stephani wrote:
> 2013/12/8 Patrick Gundlach <patrick at gundla.ch>
> 
> >
> >
> > >> In this particular case I meant availability of microtypography
> > >> features like protrusion/expansion.
> > >
> > > Even that was introduced in PDFTeX which was released long before
> > > InDesign that were first released in 2002.
> >
> > 1999, if my memory is not broken. (Just found a magazine from 1999 where
> > it was mentioned. It had the code name „K2“ until then.)
> >
> > I don't know if it had hz program in it at that time.
> >
> >
> The microtypography extensions were part of Hàn Thế Thành's PhD thesis,
> which was published in October 2000. InDesign's features can eventually be
> traced back to the hz-program, which is as early as 1988. In fact, Hàn Thế
> Thành mentions both the hz-program and InDesign in his thesis (
> http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/thesis.pdf).

I took the 2002 date from Wikipedia, apparently this is the first *Mac
OS X* release, so I stand corrected. I’m of course aware that hz-program
predates PDFTeX.


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