Since I last fought with LaTeX fonts
I've upgraded from a PowerBook to a MacBook Pro. I've been favoring XeTeX
lately because of its superior font handling, but it still can't do the
kind of character protrusion that the microtype package with pdfLaTeX can.
Following the steps I went through in
August of 2005 I tried to recreate the font metrics I needed to use
Adobe Minion Pro with pdfLaTeX. I found that with TeX Live 2007 I needed
to additionally add a line to the updmap.cfg file:
Map MinionPro.map
After adding the map entry I ran the updmap command and then
pdfLaTeX was able to see and properly make use of my installed Minion Pro
fonts.
— Michael A. Cleverly
Saturday, February 02,
2008
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Jane Austen uses double em-dashes at times. The naive approach I
tried in TeX at first— consisting of two consecutive em-dashes—leaves
a small but visible amount of whitespace.
A bit of Googling turned up
a
1994 comp.text.tex post from Donald Arseneau (who, in addition to being a
TeX-nician is also a Tcl'er!) that
gave a satisfactory solution:
\mbox{---\kern-1pt---}\penalty\exhyphenpenalty
— Michael A. Cleverly
Sunday, February 03,
2008
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Happy Intercalation
Day (and happy birthday to my friend rbm!).
I'm taking PTO today to observe leap-day as a private holiday.
After a week of 103-105 degree fevers and a terrible hacking cough for
another week I'm finally starting to feel back to my regular self again.
— Michael A. Cleverly
Friday, February 29,
2008
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