[luatex] LuaTeX file almost 2.5x bigger

[Hans Hagen]

On 2-8-2010 11:04, Robert wrote:
> On 02.08.10 17:14, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> On 31-7-2010 8:10, Robert wrote:
>>> My impression is that Hans may have been referring to the first tests,
>>> which you carried out at NTG and Dante in 1999, where *level 2*
>>> expansion wasn't available yet.
>>
>> Level 2 was there already (actually I never used level 1), maybe not in
>> distributions but definitely on my machine.
>
>  From Thanh's thesis (p. 91):
>
> | A quick survey of the very first experiments (done by Hans Hagen and
> | Taco Hoekwater) was made by Hans Hagen (May 1999). At the meantime,
> | only level 1 font expansion was available.

hm, i explicitly set level 2 in the files (btw, we did it in NL, DE and 
CZ and maybe in some more places)

>>>> - Protrusion was seen as a bug.
>>>
>>> Then it was probably overdone (eg., hyphens protruding by their full
>>> width).
>>
>> eh .. that's quite normal for hanging punctuation
>
> But it's a mistake IMO. That's what lp/rpcodes are there for, after all.

mistake? more a matter of taste and also very dependent on the font 
(length of hyphen etc) but that istru efor more typographical tricks

Hans

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