latex3/svn-mirror — Issue #52: Coffin functions for sidebearings
Author: josephwright
Created: 2011-11-15 08:35:49+00:00
State: open

As raised on LaTeX-L, aligning text in 'design' contexts (for example on a title page) may require that side bearings are ignored. This is particularly true where the glyph includes whitespace as a side bearing. It seems likely that automatic pole adjustment/positioning can only be achieved using XeTeX/LuaTeX, so this is probably not one for the kernel code at present. However, for 'enhanced' use with newer engines this may be desirable, perhaps as an add-on module.