Re: Re: IMPORTANT: (possibly) incompatible Change

[Mark Elston <m_elston@comcast.net>]

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