Re: Changing math layout / microtypography

On 2016-04-02, 00:10 GMT, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> So, I want to try lout again, thinking that complex stuff can 
> be typeset in much less time than using LaTeX.  The drawback 
> in typography I want to limit by adapting some 
> microtypographical enhancements to the way, lout doe sthe 
> typesetting. 

I think that the limitation is that lout is very much tighten to 
PostScript. So, as long as you can express it in PostScript (and 
your ps2pdf won't screw up), I believe you can make Lout macro 
which will generate the stuff for you. Which makes me wonder: 
most of the microtypographical extensions to TeX came with 
PDFTeX I believe and you still need it or its descendants (e.g., 
XeTeX) to get them. But perhaps I am wrong, and you can do those 
microtypographical extensions with PostScript as well, and it 
was just a coincidence that it came with PDFTeX.

Best,

Matěj

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