Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by ibn-alfatal on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @02:38AM
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Nope, LuaTeX does a better job and even that is limited as compared to pdfTeX. See http://mirrors.ctan.org/macros/latex/contrib/microtype/micro... page 7, Table 1.
Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by petters on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @09:48AM
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Yeah, I used pdftex for my thesis in 2012 for this reason. When I use Tex now I use Luatex as it also gives good results but with easier font management.
Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by tuomosipola on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @06:00AM
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Apparently they currently support protrusion for XeTeX. I use XeTeX for its font, language and Unicode support but it would be nice to get fully covered microtypography there.
Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by kiriakasis on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @04:46AM
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If i read correctly it does not say "powered by XeTeX" but "derived by a XeTeX Implementation"
Re:Tectonic: a modernized, self-contained TeX/LaTeX engine
by pkgwilliams on Wednesday May 31, 2017 @08:08AM
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Right.
The hope is that the easier development process will make it easier to add fancy features like microtypography ... but for me the real prize is HTML output that doesn't suck, so that's going to be the focus of my work.
Does XeTeX support microtype these days? It is important if you want "best-in-the-world output" to PDF.