The `microtype' package An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX =================================== v2.4 2010/01/10 * Overview ---------- The `microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX: most prominently, character protrusion and font expansion, furthermore the adjustment of interword spacing and additional kerning, as well as hyphenatable letterspacing (tracking) and the possibility to disable all or selected ligatures. It allows to apply these features to customisable sets of fonts, and to configure all micro-typographic aspects of the fonts in a straightforward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are provided. Note that font expansion and character protrusion will only work with pdfTeX, at least version 0.14f. Automatic font expansion requires version 1.20 or newer. Disabling ligatures requires pdfTeX 1.30, letterspacing and the adjustment of interword spacing and of kerning requires version 1.40. The package will by default enable protrusion and expansion if they can safely be assumed to work. These two features are also available with luaTeX. The `microtype' package does not work with XeTeX. The alternative package `letterspace', which also works with plain TeX, provides the user commands for letter-spacing only, omitting support for all other extensions. The documentation can be found in microtype.pdf. * Installation -------------- - Run latex on microtype.ins to generate the package and configuration files - Move all generated files into a directory where LaTeX will find them, e.g., TEXMF/tex/latex/microtype/ - Run (pdf)latex twice on microtype.dtx to create the documentation - For an index run: makeindex -s gind.ist -o microtype.ind microtype.idx - For the change history run: makeindex -s gglo.ist -o microtype.gls microtype.glo * License --------- This work may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3c of this license or (at your option) any later version. The latest version of this license is in: http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt, and version 1.3c or later is part of all distributions of LaTeX version 2005/12/01 or later. This work has the LPPL maintenance status `author-maintained'. This work consists of the files `microtype.dtx' and `microtype.ins' and the derived files `microtype.sty', `microtype.lua' and `letterspace.sty'. Modified versions of the configuration files (*.cfg) may be distributed provided that (1) the original copyright statement is not removed, and (2) the identification string is changed. ---------------------------------------------------- Copyright (c) 2004--2010 R Schlicht ----------------------------------------------------