From: "Ulrich Dirr" <ud@art-satz.de>
Subject: RE: new for french users
Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 09:35:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0ML29c-1E61Pm3RPw-00017m@mrelayeu.kundenserver.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43051FCE.50204@wxs.nl>
On Friday, August 19, 2005 1:55 AM Hans Hagen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> There are a couple of new features in the next version of pdftex. One of
> them is the ability to automatically add a kern before punctuation,
> which is important for french. So ... we can get rid of active : ; ! and
> ? characters which is a good thing.
>
> I'll upload a version that supports this. The handling is called
> prespacing and the values are experimental. A test could look like:
>
> \definefontsynonym[myfont][Serif][handling=prespacing]
> \definefont[whatever][myfont sa 1]
> \setupalign[spacing] % nospacing
>
> \whatever look at this: we now have a proper spacing feature and, hurray,
> get rid of active punctuation!
>
> but for document wide behaviour one should apply handling at the typeface
> level.
>
> You can turn it on/off with the setupalign command (or the
> align=... k/v
> in other commands)
>
> A windows test binary can be found at:
>
> http://pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp/
>
> just move the exe and pool file to the right place and make a format.
>
> Hans
Are these new support files already at pragma site? Which files do I need?
Ulrich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-19 7:35 UTC|newest]
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2005-08-18 23:54 Hans Hagen
2005-08-19 7:35 ` Ulrich Dirr [this message]
2005-08-22 15:24 ` Hans Hagen
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