[pdftex] Optical alignment.

[Thierry Bouche]

Le vendredi 21 mars 2003 à 00:08:05, John Culleton écrivit :

JC> Following the example given in Han The Thanh paper I attempted optical 
JC> alignment (AKA hanging punctuation.) I use pef(e)tex, not pdflatex. 

JC> The problem is, it over corrects. Not just the punctuation mark but the 
JC> preceding letter protrude into the margin. I used to have it working OK.
JC> My version is:
JC> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-1.00b-pretest-20020211-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.7x)
JC> Do I need to upgrade to a newer version?


yes, you need to upgrade your protcode.tex. The one you use probably
uses per mil of char width as unit, and the new one per mil of em. That
makes a difference...


Th. B.