> I remember reading (on this list) a PHD thesis by Han The Thanh (of > pdfTEX fame) on micro typography, although the original is now a > dead link I think I've found it here:- > > http://www.pragma-ade.com/pdftex/thesis.pdf > > Many thought provoking ideas.
All his ideas (or rather, Hermann Zapf's ideas) have been implemented in pdfTeX. However, this still doesn't solve the original issue discussed in this thread. Werner