* new for french users
@ 2005-08-18 23:54 Hans Hagen
2005-08-19 7:35 ` Ulrich Dirr
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-08-18 23:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* RE: new for french users
2005-08-18 23:54 new for french users Hans Hagen
@ 2005-08-19 7:35 ` Ulrich Dirr
2005-08-22 15:24 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Ulrich Dirr @ 2005-08-19 7:35 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: new for french users
2005-08-19 7:35 ` Ulrich Dirr
@ 2005-08-22 15:24 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2005-08-22 15:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
Ulrich Dirr wrote:
>
>Are these new support files already at pragma site? Which files do I need?
>
>
the files are there; you need the (currently djgpp) version
Hans
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