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From: Henning Hraban Ramm <texml@fiee.net>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Microtypography in ConTeXt
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 10:48:32 +0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40AA119C-EF26-4261-AE1E-21522235EA25@fiee.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01b601d18f85$61ccf760$2566e620$@tosovsky@email.cz>

Am 2016-04-06 um 03:51 schrieb Jan Tosovsky <j.tosovsky@email.cz>:

> <cite>
> 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
> (≥ 1.30) or LuaTeX, 
> 
> ************************************************
> while the adjustment of interword spacing 
> and of kerning only works with pdfTeX (≥ 1.40). 
> 
> *************************************************
> 
> Letterspacing is available with pdfTeX (≥ 1.40) or LuaTeX (≥ 0.62).
> </cite>

Looks like it’s not about interword spacing and kerning in itself, but their *adjustment*.

I didn’t look into that docs, but I’d assume, tracking refers to some logging or visualization of spacing.
AFAIR ConTeXt can do that very nicely (while I never used it and don’t know how to enable it).


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-04-06  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <019d01d18f7d$6e3954b0$4aabfe10$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-05 21:11 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-05 21:51   ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]   ` <01b601d18f85$61ccf760$2566e620$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-06  4:48     ` Henning Hraban Ramm [this message]
2016-04-06  7:37       ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-06  7:35     ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-06 19:03       ` Jan Tosovsky
     [not found]       ` <01e801d19036$f10845e0$d318d1a0$@tosovsky@email.cz>
2016-04-06 19:37         ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-05 20:55 Jan Tosovsky

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