[pdftex] Problems with microtypographic extensions (and specific older pdfTeX versions?)

[Hans Hagen]

John R. Culleton wrote:

>If the low level commands are deprecated, then what should one
>use in plain pdftex? I can get optical alignment AKA protruding
>characters to work with statements like;
>
>\rm
>\pdfprotrudechars=2
>\input protcode.tex
>\setprotcode\font
>
>  
>
this is ok; the main difference is that nowadays pdftex will 
(internally) generate the font variants

(but you should keep an eye on the values of the codes, since thanh 
moved from percentages of a glyph width to em's)


Hans

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