From: "Jan Tosovsky" <j.tosovsky@email.cz>
To: "'mailing list for ConTeXt users'" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Microtypography in ConTeXt
Date: Wed, 6 Apr 2016 21:03:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <41844.2867733122$1459969430@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5704BC26.1010204@wxs.nl>
On 2016-04-06 Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/5/2016 11:51 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> > On 2016-04-05 Hans Hagen wrote:
> >> On 4/5/2016 10:55 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> >>>
> >>> according to http://texdoc.net/texmf-
> >>> dist/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf
> >>> pdfTeX offers fine tuning of:
> >>> (1) Character protrusion
> >>> (2) Font expansion
> >>> (3) Tracking
> >>> (4) Additional kerning
> >>> (5) Interword spacing
> >>>
> >>> AFAIK ConTeXt covers 1+2+(3?) ...
> >>> Are there any plans to cover the rest?
> >>
> > My concern was based on this introduction (on title page), especially
> > on that sentence marked with asterisks:
> >
> > ************************************************
> > ... the adjustment of interword spacing
> > and of kerning only works with pdfTeX (≥ 1.40).
> > *************************************************
>
> protrusion and expansion are supported at the luatex engine level but
> configuration is up to the macro packages and they can follow different
> approaches
>
> the other things ... well, they are up to the macro package
Indeed, you most likely figured the problem. They are mentioning luatex, while those features require ConTeXt 'preprocessing'.
> i don't think that there are typographical advantages of using pdftex
> over luatex (at least not with context)
Great, thanks! I am updating article with comparision of various engines, I'll reflect it.
Jan
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[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
2016-04-06 7:37 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-06 7:35 ` Hans Hagen
2016-04-06 19:03 ` Jan Tosovsky [this message]
[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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