[pdftex] Protrusion confusion.

Thanh Han The hanthethanh at gmail.com
Sat Sep 13 20:13:09 CEST 2008


can you please post all relevant files: protcodex.tex, log
file and pdf output.

Thanh



On Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:14:52AM -0400, John Culleton wrote:
> I am using texlive 2008 beta. I made up a pdftex sample that looked
> like this:
> ---------------------------------
> \pdfoutput=1
> \pdfpagewidth 6in
> \pdfpageheight 9in
> \hsize 4.5in
> \vsize 7in
> \pdfhorigin .75in
> \parindent 0.375in
> \font\rm pplr8r at 12pt
> \font\it pplri8r at 12pt
> \baselineskip 15pt
> \nopagenumbers
> \frenchspacing
> \rm
> \pdfadjustspacing=1
> \input protcodex.tex
> %\pdfprotrudechars=1
> \setprotcode\font
> \pdffontexpand\rm 10 10 5 autoexpand
> \noindent
> (etc.)
> ---------------------------
>
> This worked OK. But when I uncomment \pdfprotrudechars the lines
> ending in hyphens etc. protrude too far into the right margin.  Not
> only the hyphen but the character next to it protrudes.
>
> protcodex.tex is the same as protcode.tex except the \makeatletter and
> \makeatother statements have been commented out because they are not
> plain pdftex statements.
> --
> John Culleton
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