[XeTeX] experimental new xetex version - with margin-kerning support

[Martin Schröder]

2010/5/3 Barry MacKichan <barry.mackichan at mackichan.com>:
> Now that that has sunk in ;-) can I ask about the other feature of
> PDFTeX, namely the ability to improve line breaking by (to my eye)
> undetectable changes in the font size for a paragraph? Is there any plan
> to port this to XeTeX?

IMHO that will be much harder, since XeTeX is a two-pass machine (.tex
-> xdv -> pdf) compared to the one-pass approach of pdfTeX which IMHO
is essential for microtypgraphy.

But if certainly would help if there would be funding. :-)

Best
   Marti