Microtype The microtype package An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTEX R Schlicht
[email protected] v1.9 — 2005/10/28 Abstract The microtype package provides an interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTEX: most prominently, character protrusion and font expansion, furthermore the possibility to disable all ligatures of a font.1 It allows to apply these features to customizable sets of fonts, and to configure all micro-typographic aspects of the fonts in a straight-forward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are provided.2 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 require pdfTEX 1.30. The package will by default enable the features that can safely be assumed to work. 1 A preview of the next version with support for even more micro-typographical extensions is also included in this package. Footnote 12 on page 17 contains the details. 2 Currently, this package provides settings for Computer Modern Roman, Palatino, Times, Adobe Garamond and Minion, Bitstream Charter, and the AMS math fonts, as well as some generic settings for unknown fonts. Contributions are very welcome. CONTENTS 2 Contents 1 Micro-Typography with pdfTEX 4 2 Invoking the Package 5 3 Options 5 3.1 Micro-Typographic Options ...................... 5 3.2 Options for Character Protrusion ................... 6 3.3 Options for Font Expansion ...................... 6 3.4 Miscellaneous Options ......................... 7 3.5 Changing Settings Later ........................ 8 4 Declaring Font Sets 8 5 Micro Fine Tuning 11 5.1 Character Protrusion .........................