Re: Re: IMPORTANT: (possibly) incompatible Change

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

On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:48 PM, Thomas S. Dye wrote:

> 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.

Does that mean it will break running XETEX, or will i just be ignored?

- Carsten