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

[Rembrandt Wolpert]

Yes -- you are correct, I am wrong... I had inadvertently changed another
parameter (proportional numbers). (And of course, microtype gives you a
warning and doesn't work). Sorry for getting some hopes up...


On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 11:16 AM, Jonathan Kew <jonathan at jfkew.plus.com>wrote:

> On 7 Feb 2009, at 17:43, Rembrandt Wolpert wrote:
>>
>>  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.
>>>
>>
>> Different, perhaps. Correct? I very much doubt it.
>>
>> Does Garamond Premier Pro include an 'opbd' feature? The version I have
>> doesn't support this. But even if it did, the result would still be wrong,
>> because this feature shouldn't be applied to all the text but only at the
>> line edges. Moreover, it requires a specialized engine that knows that it
>> means to apply the 'lfbd' or 'rtbd' feature depending on position. There's
>> no way this can have worked in XeTeX in the way the Adobe feature
>> specification says, as the code hasn't been written.
>>
>> As for the microtype package, didn't it give you a warning to say that it
>> only works with pdftex?
>>
>> Perhaps you were really just comparing Garamond with Computer Modern,
>> perhaps?
>>
>> JK
>>
>>
>>

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