[pdftex] Optical alignment.

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Sat Mar 22 09:25:46 CET 2003


On Friday 21 March 2003 06:16 am, Thierry Bouche wrote:
> 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.
>
Thanks. Searching CTAN I located only one version of protcode.tex listed under 
obsolete/systems/pdftex/ext. That version is identical with what I have. Can 
you suggest a source for the newer version?

John C.


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