CTAN package update: microtype

CTAN Announcements ctan-ann at dante.de
Sat Jul 14 20:36:33 CEST 2007


The package described below has been updated at tug.ctan.org and should soon
be at your favorite mirror

Thanks,
Jim Hefferon
Saint Michael's College
 
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:

Name of contribution: microtype
Author's name: R Schlicht
Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype
Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX
License type: lppl

Announcement text: 
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Changes in version 2.2:
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* Improvements to tracking/letterspacing:
   - kerning will be retained (with pdfTeX 1.40.4)
   - protrusion settings will be automatically adjusted
* New key `no ligatures' for \SetTracking to disable selected or 
  all ligatures (with pdfTeX 1.40.4)
* New keys `spacing' and `outer spacing' for \SetTracking to 
  customise interword spacing 
* Possibility to expand a font with different parameters (with
  pdfTeX 1.40.4) 
* New optional argument for \DisableLigatures to disable selected 
  ligatures only
* New command \DeclareMicrotypeVariants to specify variant suffixes 
* New command \textmicrotypecontext, a wrapper for \microtypecontext 
* Protrusion settings for Bitstream Letter Gothic
* Basic support for LuaTeX (if generated with the `lua' option)

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This package is located at 
   http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
.  More information is at
   http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=microtype
(if the package is new it may take a day for that information to 
appear).  We are supported by the TeX Users Group http://www.tug.org .  
Please join a users group; see http://www.tug.org/usergroups.html .



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