[pdftex] Han The Thanh's thesis on microtypography

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:02 PM 1/31/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>Le jeudi 31 janvier 2002 à 04:02:58, je reçus de la part de
>Guy Worthington le suivant & intrigant message:
>
>GW> I've had mixed results with margin kerning; I like the improvement
>GW> of margin kerning with cmr10, however, to my eye, text typeset with
>GW> palatino looks better without margin kerning.
>
>are you saying that you use thanh's protcode unchanged with Palatino?
>
>What could make you think that this would improve anything?
>
>marginal kerning is font (adn script) dependant.

maybe pdftex shoul dprovide:

\pdffontexperience=7
\pdftypobackground=1
\pdfcanseethedifference=1

so that whan all match certain minimum levels, protruding is indeed enabled -)

Hans
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