[XeTeX] Font protrusion --- new or old ?

[Nicolas Vaughan]

Hello,
One of the alledged weakenesses of XeTeX is its lack of support for font
protrusion and other microtypographical features. Defenders of
microtypography, e.g., Hermann Zapf, assert that these goodies are at least
as old as metal typesetting, but were lost with the advent of electronic
typesetting. However, after having examined several books and type specimens
from the 16th to the 19th centuries (you can find them online in e.g.
Archive.org), I have not been able to find any instances of font protrusion.


Is this microtypography stuff a new fad? Is it really a shortcomming of
XeTeX not to support it?

Nicolas Vaughan
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