[XeTeX] XeTeX: status quo

[Jonathan Kew]

On 13 Mar 2007, at 9:47 am, caapv 208 wrote:

> --- Jonathan Kew <jonathan_kew at sil.org> wrote:
>> While it's true that you could (ab)use
>> \XeTeXinterchartoks to add
>> kerning between particular character pairs, I don't
>> think it would be
>> usable for margin kerning; it won't distinguish line
>> edges from word
>> edges or other text run breaks within the line.
>
> What's wrong using the discardable kern?
> cf. p.394--395 of TeXbook

Good point; you could do this, so it would indeed be possible to  
create "margin kerning" effects this way.

I still don't think it's the right mechanism, though. We need  
something associated with the current font.

JK