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Re: Changing math layout / microtypography
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Matěj Cepl |
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Re: Changing math layout / microtypography |
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Sat, 02 Apr 2016 11:01:05 +0200 |
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On 2016-04-02, 00:10 GMT, Oliver Bandel wrote:
> So, I want to try lout again, thinking that complex stuff can
> be typeset in much less time than using LaTeX. The drawback
> in typography I want to limit by adapting some
> microtypographical enhancements to the way, lout doe sthe
> typesetting.
I think that the limitation is that lout is very much tighten to
PostScript. So, as long as you can express it in PostScript (and
your ps2pdf won't screw up), I believe you can make Lout macro
which will generate the stuff for you. Which makes me wonder:
most of the microtypographical extensions to TeX came with
PDFTeX I believe and you still need it or its descendants (e.g.,
XeTeX) to get them. But perhaps I am wrong, and you can do those
microtypographical extensions with PostScript as well, and it
was just a coincidence that it came with PDFTeX.
Best,
Matěj
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