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lists, peek operations and microtype trouble

LaTeX's peek operations are a bit of a black box for me and I'm struggle to get microtype protrusion to behave in a custom list which has a peek operation at the beginning of it. The following silly ...
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Protrusion \lpcode and \rpcode for otf font feature characters?

Using lualatex, Linux, TeXlive 2023. Without using microtype I can directly set character protrusions using \lpcode and \rpcode. This works for me, since I use a custom OpenType font with known ...
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OpenType case-senstive forms break microtype's protrusion for hyphens

By enabling the OpenType feature case-senstive forms ([Letters=Uppercase]), vertically lifted brackets, hyphens, or parentheses for example) via setmainfont with fontspec, I loose the protrusion for ...
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Indentation/protrusion of first line in redefined quote with microtype

MWE: \documentclass{article} \usepackage{microtype} \renewenvironment{quote} {\list{}{\leftmargin0.5cm \rightmargin0cm} \item\relax\fontsize{9.8pt}{11.4pt}\selectfont} {\endlist} \begin{document} \...
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Activate microtype-Protrusion for superscript old style numbers with LuaLaTex

I’ve been playing around with microtype’s protusion-capabilities and LuaLaTeX, but faced a problem regarding old-style superscript numbers. The regular numbers protrude. This code \documentclass{...
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Microtype quotation marks in itemize not aligned properly at begin of an item

A fellow LaTeX user ran into a problem using quotations inside an itemize/enumerate environment. When using automatic quotation marks from csquotes at the beginning of an item, the quotation mark is ...
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Closing quotation marks don't protrude into the right margin of bibliography with biblatex

I like how the microtype package handles character protrusion when I compile my LaTeX documents with LuaLaTeX. But I have noticed that this doesn't seem to work properly in the bibliography that the ...
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pdftex character protrusion without latex: what happened to protcode.tex?

If one uses pdftex, not pdflatex, and wants character protrusion, it used to be that one would input protcode.tex. That was present in texlive2015, but disappeared by texlive2019. The pdftex manual (...
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Why does my .otf font not like microtype's protrusion?

And, more importantly, what can I do to fix it? No MWE, since it happens every time I use a particular font (and not when I don't or disable microtype's protrusion). These are the warnings I get: ... ...
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ConTeXt: Protrusion inside enumeration

I cannot get protrusion to work inside enumerations. I’m creating a presentation, and most of the content is inside an itemize environment. I have searched all over, in the wiki, the ’Fonts out of ...
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ConTeXt: Protrusion does not work with the \quotation macro

For some reason, protrusion is not applied when using the \quotation macro. See the following example: \setuppapersize[S3] \showframe \definefontfeature [default] [default] [protrusion=quality] \...
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microtype justification not working on unnumbered section

I am trying to write a paper using \twocolumn and \microtype. Justification looks pretty good in the text, but not in the section (it protrudes into the second column). How can I stop that? Thank you! ...
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Microtype: How to disable protrusion for single characters?

I want to disable the protrusion for endashes and emdashes. The line filling does not look good there ... But how to do so? According to the answers here, I tried to manipulate the font packages but ...
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Microtypography protrusion with Polish quotation marks

I use pdfLaTeX with Polish documents. In Polish quotation marks look like this: „Lorem”. With package polski, one can use them in LaTeX with ,,Lorem''. All was well, but I recently discovered the ...
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Unclarities about Microtype's default options

I delved deeper into the details of the microtype package to get the best results and perhaps not the safest results. Four things are still unclear after reading the manual, hence a post here. (1) ...
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