@ Jonathan,<br>Why do you say ---as you have been quoted--- that font protrusion could be supported as an OpenType feature, and not directly through the XeTeX engine?<br>Thanks!<br clear="all">Nicolas<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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