[luatex] LuaTeX file almost 2.5x bigger

Hans Hagen pragma at wxs.nl
Mon Aug 2 17:07:18 CEST 2010


On 31-7-2010 5:58, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> Hi Robert,
>
> On 07/31/2010 05:34 PM, Robert wrote:
>>
>>> - Protrusion was seen as a bug.
>>
>> Then it was probably overdone (eg., hyphens protruding by their full
>> width).
>
> Yeah, I agree with you on that. In fact, if protrusion is done somewhat
> subtly, I really do see the paragraph as looking 'better'.

One can argue not to hang the hyphens, but just the punctuation; it also 
depends on the layout, for instance in multi columns settings too much 
protrusion in the first column can get disturbing if the second column 
is close .. all a matter of taste I guess.

Hans

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