Re: Re: IMPORTANT: (possibly) incompatible Change

["Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.com>]

On Apr 10, 2010, at 7:30 AM, Mark Elston wrote:

> On 4/7/2010 1:22 AM, Karsten Heymann wrote:
>>
>> Carsten Dominik<carsten.dominik@gmail.com>  writes:
>>> On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:
>>>> From the microtype documentation:
>>>>
>>>>>  The microtype package does not work with XETEX.
>>>
>>> Does that mean it will break running XETEX, or will i just be  
>>> ignored?
>>
>> It only gives a (harmless) warning:
>>
>> Package microtype Warning: You don't seem to be using pdftex.
>> (microtype)                All micro-typographic features will be  
>> disabled.
>>
>> But chances are high that most "normal" LaTeX documents will not work
>> with xelatex anyways due to encoding or font selection issues, so I
>> think unless org-mode aims at explicitely supporting XeTeX out of the
>> box this whole topic can (and should) be ignored.
>
> I am having problems with microtype, here.  I don't know if it is
> happening in all my docs or just the ones I am working with now but
> pdf generation fails with the following in the log:
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
> ...
> (Handouts07.out) (Handouts07.out)
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\wasysym\uwasy.fd")
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\base\ulasy.fd")
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsa.fd")
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\microtype\mt-msa.cfg")
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\amsfonts\umsb.fd")
> ("C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.7\tex\latex\microtype\mt-msb.cfg")  
> [1{C:/Prog
> ramData/MiKTeX/2.7/pdftex/config/pdftex.map}
> ! pdfTeX error (font expansion): auto expansion is only possible  
> with scalable
> fonts.
> \AtBegShi@Output ...ipout \box \AtBeginShipoutBox
>                                                  \fi \fi
> l.111     S
>           harezer = Babylonian name, sharusur, ``protect the king.''
> !  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!
> Transcript written on Handouts07.log.
> ------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> If I comment out the \usepackage{microtype} line then everything works
> fine.  I am a casual user of latex so I don't really know what the
> comment above about scalable fonts is getting at.  Perhaps I can set
> my docs up to do something different in terms of fonts to make this
> just work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Mark
>
>
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Hi Mark,

Removing microtype is probably the easiest solution.  It performs some  
sophisticated micro-typographic adjustments that are typically found  
in published material.  The LaTeX world got on fine without them for  
years and the casual LaTeX user can still do so.  AFAIK, it is not  
necessary for the Org-mode LaTeX exporter.

All the best,
Tom