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[Philipp Stephani]

2013/12/8 Patrick Gundlach <patrick at gundla.ch>

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> >> In this particular case I meant availability of microtypography
> >> features like protrusion/expansion.
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> > Even that was introduced in PDFTeX which was released long before
> > InDesign that were first released in 2002.
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> 1999, if my memory is not broken. (Just found a magazine from 1999 where
> it was mentioned. It had the code name „K2“ until then.)
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> I don't know if it had hz program in it at that time.
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The microtypography extensions were part of Hàn Thế Thành's PhD thesis,
which was published in October 2000. InDesign's features can eventually be
traced back to the hz-program, which is as early as 1988. In fact, Hàn Thế
Thành mentions both the hz-program and InDesign in his thesis (
http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/thesis.pdf).
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