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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Microtypography in ConTeXt
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2016 23:11:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <570429FC.1050103@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <019d01d18f7d$6e3954b0$4aabfe10$@tosovsky@email.cz>

On 4/5/2016 10:55 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> 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?). In recent discussion Hans mentioned
> experimental 'space kerning'. Is it anything related to above features (4)?
> Are there any plans to cover the rest?

1 - protrusion is supported
2 - expansion is supported

both with variants and granularity

3 - i have no clue what tracking is
4 - neither what additional kerning is (unless you mean (usually ugly) 
extra inter character kerning, which is supported)
5 - it being a rather core tex feature, normal interword spacing is 
supported

the mentioned space kerning refers to kerning between characters and 
spaces defined in the font itself

Hans

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       reply	other threads:[~2016-04-05 21:11 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 [this message]
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
     [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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