[XeTeX] XeTeX, fontspec, OTF, and fontdimens

[Will Robertson]

On 2011-03-01 00:58:45 +1030, 
mskala at ansuz.sooke.bc.ca said:

> It's important not to override the widths of glyphs because of the common
> case I described earlier of a font that is in some meaningful way
> monospaced, but doesn't have all characters exactly the same width.

Also note that XeTeX currently can't override the widths of glyphs.

> If someone wants to force a proportional font to be typeset as monospace
> with the glyphs on a grid, I think that's beyond the scope of what XeTeX
> should support.

Yes; such people can use the listings package if they want this.

Cheers,
Will