[XeTeX] Character protrusion in XeTeX/XeLaTeX?

[William Adams]

On Mar 23, 2007, at 7:59 AM, Marc Gumpinger wrote:

> Thank you very much for your response.

Glad to.

> How do I make characters active and adjust their positioning against
> the margins?

Get a copy of the TeXbook from your local library, or look at the  
source code for it (I've a link to it here: http://members.aol.com/ 
willadams/books-e-tex.html )

> Do I understand you correctly, that XeLaTeX does not offer any
> dedicated character protrusion?

Essentially.

> If this is the case I'm kind of astonished since it is dedicated to
> easily use any font but does not provide such typographic tool?

It's a difficult problem when combined w/ characters changing so that  
they might cause lines to re-break, and since it wasn't built into  
TeX itself, XeTeX didn't inherit it.

There's been some discussion of it on the list in the past --- check  
the archives at: http://tug.org/pipermail/xetex/

William


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