Trying it out, and inserting<br><br>\usepackage{microtype}<br>\setmainfont{Garamond Premier Pro:+opbd}<br><br>the result (linebreaks, hyphenated words) looks quite different from a "straight" version without the package and the opbd. <br>
<br>Rembrandt<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Peter Baker <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:psb6m@virginia.edu">psb6m@virginia.edu</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;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">Florian Grammel wrote:<br>
> Personally I would love to see XeTeX at least do character-protrusion.<br>
> But as Jonathan Kew has pointed out earlier: According to XeTeX's<br>
> basic idea this should be done using an OpenType-feature<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/otspec/features_ko.htm#opbd" target="_blank">http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/otspec/features_ko.htm#opbd</a><br>
><br>
> Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any further description of<br>
> how to implement it (e.g.. precise OT syntax) or just evidence of that<br>
> it actually has been used at all in any font.<br>
> I'd be very grateful, if anybody here had further information on this...<br>
><br>
</div>I put this question to the OT list a year or so ago and got no answer at<br>
all. Seems everyone is so comfortable with protrusion as implemented in<br>
software (InDesign, etc.) that there has been little incentive to<br>
develop the OT feature and support in rendering engines.<br>
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Peter<br>
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