On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 4:22 PM, stefano franchi <stefano.fran...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 12:36 AM, Rob Oakes <lyx-de...@oak-tree.us> wrote: > >> Hi Stefano, >> >> > do you have any advice or pointers to sites explaining how to use margin >> kerning in XeTeX? The notes posted by J Kew on the mailing list and on the >> XeTeX wiki are way too cryptic for me. >> >> Short answer, yes. As far as I know, it hasn't yet been discussed much in >> the Interwebs, but there are several resources you can find on it. The >> place to probably start is the XeTeX Microtypography website: >> >> > Hi Rob, > > thanks for the detailed instructions. I thought you had to set up the > various microtype parameters for each font, but it turns out, as you said, > that the default work reasonably well. At least with my set up (using Linux > Libertine and TeX Gyre Termes). > Time to start tweaking the parameters to hyphenation algorithm to make up > for the lack of font expansion. > > Cheers, > > Stefano > > > Update: I was really not that happy with the lack of font expansion in XeTeX, and decided to give LuaTeX a try. I am very happy with the results. I am using LyX 1.6.7 with TeX Live 2010 and the latest versions of LuaTex, luaotfload (the Open Type loading script for LuaTeX), microtype, biblatex 0.9 and biber 0.6beta Pagination has improved considerably out of the box, with no fiddling with its various parameters. For Lyx, I used the method described in the wiki for XeTeX (define a new pdf format, etc), and switched the bibtex processor to biber in the preferences. Everyone seems to strongly recommend a switch away from babel to polyglossia (for XeTeX as well as for LuaTeX), but I didn't (nor would I know how to do so from within LyX). No problems so far. For my current project, the main advantage of LuaTeX over XeTeX is that hyphenation is now much less common. I do not know if this is only due to font expansion or whether it is also due, perhaps, to different default parameters in the layout algorithm. Be it as it may, my book looks much better. Stefano, a very happy LuaLyXer
