[XeTeX] Character protrusion in XeTeX/XeLaTeX?

[William Adams]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 5:36 AM, Marc Gumpinger wrote:

> is there a way to get character protrusion in XeTeX (XeLaTeX)?
> I used the microtype package with pdfLaTeX but that doesn't work with
> XeLaTeX anymore.

You can make characters active and then have them adjust their  
positioning against the margins --- kind of a nuisance when one then  
can't write \hspace*{4.5bp} though (since the . would be active so as  
to optically adjust). Code for it in the TeXBook where it's called  
``an easier problem''.

Peter Wilson also created a LaTeX package for it as well, ``hanging'':

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/hanging/

William

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William Adams
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Fry Communications



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