@ Herb:<br><br>You're right on something. Once you meet character protrusion, you'll never again see a right margin typeset without such microtypographic feature thoroughly straight. That happened to me when I began using the microtype LaTeX package.<br>
<br>But now I also see askew the right margins of classic, well typeset books. Thus, I wonder if straightness is also in the eye of the typesetter.<br><br clear="all">Nicolas Vaughan<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 9:50 PM, Nicolas Vaughan <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:nivaca@gmail.com">nivaca@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br>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. <br>
<br>Is this microtypography stuff a new fad? Is it really a shortcomming of XeTeX not to support it?<br><font color="#888888"><br>Nicolas Vaughan<br>
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