CTAN package update: microtype

Date: December 9, 2005 1:40:06 PM CET

The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org (after a delay caused by me) and will soon appear at the mirror you like the best. Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon ====================================================================== The following information was provided by the package's contributor. Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl Announcement text given by the package's contributor:

Changes in version 1.9a:

* Defer setup until the end of the preamble; consequently, no need to change font defaults before loading microtype, or to put it the other way round, microtype may now be loaded at any time * Inside the preamble, \microtypesetup accepts all package options * Protrusion settings for T5 encoded Charter

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microtype – Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection

The 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, LuaTeX, or XeTeX. Font expansion works with pdfTeX or LuaTeX. The package will by default enable protrusion and expansion if they can safely be assumed to work. Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX or LuaTeX, while the adjustment of interword spacing and of kerning only works with pdfTeX. Letterspacing is available with pdfTeX or LuaTeX.

The alternative package ‘letterspace’, which also works with plain TeX, provides the user commands for letterspacing only, omitting support for all other extensions.

Package	microtype
Version	3.1b 2024-03-29
Copyright	2004–2024 Robert Schlicht
Maintainer	Robert Schlicht

CTAN package update: microtype

microtype – Subliminal refinements towards typographical perfection

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