[Mac OS X TeX] Using Margin kerning

[Adrian Heathcote]

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On Monday, October 29, 2001, at 10:46 PM, Timothy Larkin wrote:

> What exactly is Margin Kerning?  Is this the same process that our 
> patron saint Donald calls hanging punctuation?

I think it is a little more subtle than hanging punctuation, since that 
is fully outside the text block. With margin kerning the letter is 
kerned (pulled slightly) into the white space around the text block. It 
generally overlaps into it, rather than fully sitting outside it. The 
effect is to make the text block look even to the eye, even though it 
strictly isn't. It is generally taken to be a mark of fine typography, 
since the page overall is neater.

Adrian Heathcote
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