[pdftex] Optical alignment

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 28 September 2002 07:38 pm, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:
> >>>>> "John" == John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> writes:
> >>>>>
>     > I tried to use character protruding as described in Han The
>     > Thanh's Dissertation. Ther result was overkill. Not only the
>     > end character but the character next to the end character
>     > protruded into the margin.  Here is a snippet from my code:
>     >
>     > [...]
>     >
>     > I used the protcode.tex file as included in the TeXlive
>     > distribution.
>     >
>     > Can anyone suggest a cure?
>
> If you are using pdfTeX version 1.0 the following piece of code in
> protcode.tex causes the problem:
>
>     \ifnum\pdftexversion > 13
>         \ifnum \expandafter`\pdftexrevision > `g
>             \adjustprotcode#1
>     \fi \fi
>
> The check for \pdftexrevision fails.
>
> Just add the lines:
>
>     \ifnum\pdftexversion > 99
>             \adjustprotcode#1
>     \fi
>
> and it should work for the current and future versions.
>
> Regards,
>   Reinhard

OK, now do I include your code right after the previous code in the
middle of the macro?

Thanks,

John Culleton