[XeTeX] Letter-spacing

[John Was]

As I suspected might be the case, the soul package (letter-spacing and 
underlining) seems to work fine for ASCII characters but not outside that 
range - it worked on some Hungarian but swallowed the e-double acute when it 
got to it, and it swallowed all of the ancient Greek I tried it on (just 
producing an empty space where the characters should be).  But for ordinary 
text it might be useful since it allows localized spacing rather than 
invoking a fresh spaced version of an entire font.  And it would certainly 
be a great asset if it were modified to take UTF-8 input.

Incidentally, I just typed \input soul.sty to get it on the TeXLive 
distribution.  LaTeX users may have to load it as a package (I haven't got 
to grips with LaTeX yet!).

Best


John

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howson" <paul at tdgq.com.au>
To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex at tug.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 8:27 PM
Subject: JunkEmail: [XeTeX] Any progress on letterspacing in xetex?


> Hi Jonathan,
>
> Last year there was some discussion about adding a letterspacing
> (tracking) facility to xetex. Has anything further been done towards
> that? Coming from a graphic design background -- Adobe apps, etc --
> this is a really important ability.
>
> Thanks, Paul Howson.
>
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