On 2016-04-06 Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/5/2016 11:51 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
On 2016-04-05 Hans Hagen wrote:
On 4/5/2016 10:55 PM, Jan Tosovsky wrote:
according to http://texdoc.net/texmf- dist/doc/latex/microtype/microtype.pdf pdfTeX offers fine tuning of: (1) Character protrusion (2) Font expansion (3) Tracking (4) Additional kerning (5) Interword spacing
AFAIK ConTeXt covers 1+2+(3?) ... Are there any plans to cover the rest?
My concern was based on this introduction (on title page), especially on that sentence marked with asterisks:
************************************************ ... the adjustment of interword spacing and of kerning only works with pdfTeX (≥ 1.40). *************************************************
protrusion and expansion are supported at the luatex engine level but configuration is up to the macro packages and they can follow different approaches
the other things ... well, they are up to the macro package
Indeed, you most likely figured the problem. They are mentioning luatex, while those features require ConTeXt 'preprocessing'.
i don't think that there are typographical advantages of using pdftex over luatex (at least not with context)
Great, thanks! I am updating article with comparision of various engines, I'll reflect it. Jan