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Thanks, Jim Hefferon Saint Michael's College
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The following information was provided by our fellow contributor:
Name of contribution: microtype Author's name: R Schlicht Location on CTAN: /macros/latex/contrib/microtype Summary description: An interface to the micro-typographic extensions of pdfTeX License type: lppl
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Changes in version 2.2: ========================
* Improvements to tracking/letterspacing: - kerning will be retained (with pdfTeX 1.40.4) - protrusion settings will be automatically adjusted * New key `no ligatures' for SetTracking to disable selected or all ligatures (with pdfTeX 1.40.4) * New keys `spacing' and `outer spacing' for SetTracking to customise interword spacing * Possibility to expand a font with different parameters (with pdfTeX 1.40.4) * New optional argument for DisableLigatures to disable selected ligatures only * New command DeclareMicrotypeVariants to specify variant suffixes * New command extmicrotypecontext, a wrapper for microtypecontext * Protrusion settings for Bitstream Letter Gothic * Basic support for LuaTeX (if generated with the `lua' option)
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