[XeTeX] Font protrusion --- new or old ?

[Rembrandt Wolpert]

Trying it out, and inserting

\usepackage{microtype}
\setmainfont{Garamond Premier Pro:+opbd}

the result (linebreaks, hyphenated words) looks quite different from a
"straight" version without the package and the opbd.

Rembrandt


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Peter Baker <psb6m at virginia.edu> wrote:

> Florian Grammel wrote:
> > Personally I would love to see XeTeX at least do character-protrusion.
> > But as Jonathan Kew has pointed out earlier: According to XeTeX's
> > basic idea this should be done using an OpenType-feature
> >
> > http://www.microsoft.com/OpenType/otspec/features_ko.htm#opbd
> >
> > Unfortunately I haven't been able to find any further description of
> > how to implement it (e.g.. precise OT syntax) or just evidence of that
> > it actually has been used at all in any font.
> > I'd be very grateful, if anybody here had further information on this...
> >
> I put this question to the OT list a year or so ago and got no answer at
> all. Seems everyone is so comfortable with protrusion as implemented in
> software (InDesign, etc.) that there has been little incentive to
> develop the OT feature and support in rendering engines.
>
> Peter
>
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