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

[William Adams]

On Feb 8, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Stephen Moye wrote:

> Wow. Very cool. Works like a charm! Now if we could just
> get at the hyphen... ;>}


Well, back in the bad-old-days of virtual fonts one would just hack in  
a zero-width hyphen.... perhaps we need to standardize adding such to  
the Private Use Area?

Actually if there were a way to make the character which \hyphenchar  
sets expand to a macro one could do it w/o a virtual font.

William

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