On Friday, August 19, 2005 1:55 AM Hans Hagen wrote:
Hi,
There are a couple of new features in the next version of pdftex. One of them is the ability to automatically add a kern before punctuation, which is important for french. So ... we can get rid of active : ; ! and ? characters which is a good thing.
I'll upload a version that supports this. The handling is called prespacing and the values are experimental. A test could look like:
\definefontsynonym[myfont][Serif][handling=prespacing] \definefont[whatever][myfont sa 1] \setupalign[spacing] % nospacing
\whatever look at this: we now have a proper spacing feature and, hurray, get rid of active punctuation!
but for document wide behaviour one should apply handling at the typeface level.
You can turn it on/off with the setupalign command (or the align=... k/v in other commands)
A windows test binary can be found at:
http://pdftex.sarovar.org/djgpp/
just move the exe and pool file to the right place and make a format.
Hans
Are these new support files already at pragma site? Which files do I need? Ulrich