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etbb parentheses spacing fix
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| %%%%%%%% | |
| %%%%% Michael sharpe's brilliant typeface `etbb' is a | |
| %%% wonderful adaptation of Edward Tufte's own adaptation of Bembo | |
| %%%%%% However, there is, as part of the font, an overlap between | |
| %%% the opening parenthesis --- ( --- and various letters, most notably J | |
| %% This is aesthetically displeasing, so I used this small snippet | |
| %%%% of XeTeX `interchartoks' to fix the spacing | |
| %%%% Now, (J doesn't overlap! | |
| \XeTeXinterchartokenstate = 1 | |
| \newXeTeXintercharclass \mycharclassj | |
| \XeTeXcharclass `\J \mycharclassj | |
| \newXeTeXintercharclass \mycharclasslittlej | |
| \XeTeXcharclass `\j \mycharclasslittlej | |
| \newXeTeXintercharclass \mycharclasst | |
| \newXeTeXintercharclass \mycharclassu | |
| \newXeTeXintercharclass \mycharclassv | |
| \XeTeXcharclass `\T \mycharclasst | |
| \XeTeXcharclass `\U \mycharclassu | |
| \XeTeXcharclass `\V \mycharclassv | |
| \newXeTeXintercharclass \mycharclassp | |
| \XeTeXcharclass `( \mycharclassp | |
| \XeTeXinterchartoks\mycharclassp\mycharclassj={\kern1.5pt } | |
| \XeTeXinterchartoks\mycharclassp\mycharclasslittlej={\kern1.5pt } | |
| \XeTeXinterchartoks\mycharclassp\mycharclasst={\kern0.7pt } | |
| \XeTeXinterchartoks\mycharclassp\mycharclassu={\kern0.7pt } | |
| \XeTeXinterchartoks\mycharclassp\mycharclassv={\kern0.7pt } | |
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Most definitely; I think this is why the endpoint is to modify the kerning itself, so as to maintain maximum compatibility (I mainly use LuaTeX but I have so many older documents using specific XeTeX hacks that cross compatibility is important to me too)
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Sounds great. I will pay attention to problematic pairs. XeTex is my main tex engine, but I do use LuaTex occasionally. I will keep you posted if I come up with some fixes using Lua filter.