Re: Changing math layout / microtypography

Zitat von Oliver Bandel <[email protected]> (Mon, 04 Apr 2016  
23:48:06 +0200)

> Hi,
>
> Zitat von Matěj Cepl <[email protected]> (Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:01:05 +0200)
>
>> 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.
>>
[...]

[...]
>> 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.
>
> There were some enhancements in pdfTeX, that TeX does not have.
> The problem is not Postscript, but TeX itself.
>
> See here for example:
>    
> http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/349/what-is-the-practical-difference-between-latex-and-pdflatex
>
> So,,, pdfTeX with a certain package to enhance themicrotypography.
[...]


See here:

   The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to the micro-typographic
   extensions that were introduced by pdfTeX and have since also propagated to
   XeTeX and LuaTeX: most prominently, character protrusion and font expansion,
   furthermore the adjustment of interword spacing and additional kerning, as
   well as hyphenatable letterspacing (tracking) and the possibility to disable
   all or selected ligatures. These features may be applied to  
customisable sets
   of fonts, and all micro- typographic aspects of the fonts can be configured
   in a straight-forward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are
   provided.

   Note that character protrusion requires pdfTeX (version 0.14f or later),
   LuaTeX, or XeTeX (at least version 0.9997). Font expansion works with pdfTeX
   (version 1.20 for automatic expansion) or LuaTeX. The package will  
by default
   enable protrusion and expansion if they can safely be assumed to work.
   Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX (at least version 1.30) or LuaTeX, while
   the adjustment of interword spacing and of kerning only works with  
pdfTeX (at
   least 1.40). Letterspacing is available with pdfTeX (1.40) or LuaTeX (0.62).

( http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype/ )

Ciao,
    Oliver