Re: Re: IMPORTANT: (possibly) incompatible Change

[Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>]

Hi Karsten,

On Apr 6, 2010, at 2:30 PM, Karsten Heymann wrote:

> Hi Carsten,
>
> a small note:
>
> Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com> writes:
> [...]
>> If you have customized the variable org-export-latex-classes, you  
>> need
>> to remove the following lines from each class definition:
>>
>> \usepackage[AUTO]{inputenc}
>> \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
>> \usepackage{graphicx}
>> \usepackage{longtable}
>> \usepackage{float}
>> \usepackage{wrapfig}
>> \usepackage{soul}
>> \usepackage{latexsym}
>> \usepackage{amssymb}
>> \usepackage{hyperref}

Do you have any recommendations for the sequence in which these
packages should be called?  Or does that make no difference at all?
Does any of these cause problems if they are called twice (say I
add them, but users have them configured already?)

>
> The following packages should also be safe to add, as they are part of
> the standard latex distribution:
>
> textcomp (better Text symbols, for example list bullets not made of  
> math
>   chars, are used automatically if package is loaded)
> fixltx2e (numerous small slightly backwards incompatible changes, see
>   http://ctan.org/tex-archive/help/Catalogue/entries/fixltx2e.html)
>
> Also, I'd recommend \usepackage{microtype} and a gentle increase of  
> the
> \tolerance value (less perfectionist text justification) for a much
> nicer out-of-the-box experience:

What is is really changing due to these last two
settings (microtype) and tolerance, could you explain in a bit more  
detail?

And: Can I expect fixltx2e to be present in all distributions?

Is \tolerance defined in microtype, or did you put these together just
incidentally?

>
> \usepackage{microtype}
> \tolerance=1000
>
> Yours
> Karsten

I really appreciate expert advice about this.  Thank you.

- Carsten