On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:30 AM, Robert Klein wrote:

> On Tue, 06 Apr 2010 18:50:36 +0200, Karsten Heymann <karsten.heymann@blue-cable.net 
> > wrote:
>
>>> Thanks a lot for all this, I will follow your advice.
>>>
>>> One final question: Will any of these packages spoil the fun for
>>> people who want to process through .dvi instead of directly to pdf?
>>
>> Not as far as I know. hyperref and microtype will run with reduced
>> features, but apart from that, there should be no problem. Regarding
>> microtype, I do not know what happens when it is used with the old  
>> TeX
>> or eTeX compiler that was used to created dvi's before pdftex was  
>> used
>> for this too, but that should largely be an academic problem as  
>> pdftex
>> is now used anywhere.
>>
>
>
> In a minimal document it runs Ok with pdfeTeX, for both creating dvi  
> and pdf.
> (The one in teTeX 3.0.)
>
>
> Best regards
> Robert
>

Aloha all,

 From the microtype documentation:

>  The microtype package does not work with XETEX.

All the best,
Tom