Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > I thought the typesetting algorithm was supposed to be better with more > action on the font spacing (which is different from being able to use > NewCenturyOldStyleCondensedBlack as main font).
I don't think so; where did you get this info from? You can use (with XeTeX) some OpenType features, but in general, the quality in pdflatex is not worse, on the contrary (microtypographic features are not yet fully implemented in XeTeX and LuaTeX). Jürgen