Stefano Franchi schrieb:
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could you tell a user like me who is really missing margin kerning and font expansion what he needs to do to switch the backend of LyX from Latex to pdfetex?
Is it just a matter of simlinking latex to pdfetex?
I am on MacOS 10.3 with the teTeX distribution installed via fink. I do have the pdfetex binary installed, it seems, because locate can find it.
You need at least pdftex 1.20a IIRC, so you have to check if you have an older version (which I assume, because teTeX 2.0.2 comes with pdftex 1.10b and teTeX 3 is not released yet).
If you install the new pdftex, you have to check the paths, because some of them have changed, as is stated in CTAN:/systems/pdftex/NEWS:
The searchpath for encoding and mapfiles has been changed. See http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2004-January/004734.html and http://tug.org/pipermail/tex-live/2004-January/004791.html
Could you also point to some info on how to control these features? I can't find anything on the LaTeX companion
This should be in the pdftex manual. The package "microtype" can handle font expansion and character protrusion AFAIK.
Good luck,
Dominik.-
