[pdftex] [CTAN] microtype

[Martin Schröder]

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From: CTAN Announcements <ftpmaint at alan.smcvt.edu>
Date: 15.01.2007 11:51
Subject: tug.ctan.org upload: microtype
To: ctan-ann at dante.de


The package below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and these changes should
soon reach your favorite mirror.

Thank you,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College

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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text:
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pdfTeX 1.40, which was released recently, introduces some new
micro-typographic extensions:
 * robust and hyphenatable letterspacing (tracking),
 * adjustment of interword spacing (depending on the preceding character),
 * additional kerning.

The microtype package had already supported these extensions in its
beta version -- now, with version 2.0 of microtype, they are supported
officially. Additionally, a new package `letterspace' is included,
which only provides the letterspacing commands.

Changes in version 2.0:
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 * Support for the new extensions of pdfTeX version 1.40:
   - tracking/letterspacing
     (new options `tracking', `letterspace', new command \SetTracking)
   - adjustment of interword spacing (glue)
     (new option `spacing', new command \SetExtraSpacing)
   - additional kerning
     (new option `kerning', new command \SetExtraKerning)
 * New commands \textls and \lsstyle for ad-hoc letterspacing
   (These two commands are alternatively also available with
   the new package `letterspace' -- a stripped-down version of
   microtype; much like the `soul' package, but entirely robust)
 * New option `babel' for automatic micro-typographic adjustment to the
   selected language
 * New font sets: `smallcaps', `footnotesize', `scriptsize'

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This package is located at
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=microtype
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .