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Thank you for the update, Jim Hefferon

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The following information was provided by the package's 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

Announcement text given by the package's contributor: - - ---------------------------------------------------------------------- changes in version 1.8: ======================= * New option `config' to load a different main configuration file * New option `unit' to measure protrusion factors relative to a dimension instead of the character width * New command DeclareMicrotypeSetDefault to declare the default font sets * Renamed commands from ..MicroType.. to ..Microtype.. * If font substitution has occurred, the settings for the substitute will be used instead of those for the selected font * Protrusion settings for AMS math fonts * Protrusion settings for Times in LY1 encoding completed * The `allmath' font set also includes U encoding * 8-bit characters in the configuration files finally work as advertised, even if made active by the `csquotes' package * When using the `ledmac' package, character protrusion will work for the first time ever (requires pdfTeX version 1.30 or later)

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You can have a look at the package at http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/microtype although you may get a better network connection by visiting a mirror of CTAN that is near to you; see http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/README.mirrors .