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microtype

An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX

The 'microtype' package provides a LaTeX interface to pdfTeX's micro-typographic extensions: character protrusion and font expansion.

The package allows you to restrict character protrusion and/or font expansion to a certain set of fonts, or to certain parts of the document (for example, based on selected language), and to configure micro-typographic aspects of the fonts in a straight-forward and flexible way. Settings for various fonts are provided.

The bundle also provides a letterspace package; this improves on the alternatives (letterspacing and soul), and also provides a means of protecting ligatures notably those in fraktur fonts—useful in fraktur fonts and the like.

Note: Font expansion and character protrusion only works with the pdfTeX compiler, at least version 0.14f; version 1.20a is needed for automatic font expansion. With pdfTeX version 1.30, a command is provided for suppressing ligatures.

See also pdfcprot.

The author is Robert Schlicht. The package is Copyright © 2004-2007 Robert Schlicht.

License: lppl Version: 2.1 Catalogued: 2007-01-22

- Visit
  - Visit a nearby CTAN:/macros/latex/contrib/microtype. If this fails, try Cambridge.
  - Visit Cambridge:/macros/latex/contrib/microtype
- Download
  - Download from a nearby CTAN (automatically identified).
  - Download from Cambridge.
- Documentation
  - Package README: README.
  - Package documentation: microtype.pdf.
- Distributions
  - This package is included in TeX Live.
  - This package is included in MikTeX.