Re: Superscript text size

[morgan.brassel@free.fr]

Selon Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:

> On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, morgan.brassel@free.fr wrote:
>
> > Selon Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
> >
> >> On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, morgan.brassel@free.fr wrote:
> >>
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> The superscript in expressions like $R^N$ seems to be typeset with a
> bigger
> >> font
> >>> size in ConTeXt than in LaTeX. Is it the wanted behaviour? From the
> >> typographic
> >>> point of view, which is the best of the two renderings?
> >>>
> >>> Thanks for your advice,
> >>
> >> That should not happen. I cannot see the different from my eyes. Here is
> >> my example. In both cases, bodyfont is 10pt, and scriptsize is 7pt. Do you
> >> see the differece?
> >>
> >> ConTeXT:
> >>
> >> \setupbodyfont[10pt]
> >> \starttext $R^N$ \stoptext
> >>
> >>
> >> LaTeX:
> >>
> >> \documentclass{minimal}
> >> \usepackage{lmodern}
> >> \begin{document}
> >>    $R^N$
> >> \end{document}
> >>
> >>
> >
> > As far as my eyes can see, the results are the same with 10pt and 11pt as
> > document text size, but not with 12pt. Your two examples in 12pt look
> different
> > to me. Am I wrong?
>
> In the latex example, you need to change the document class to article, if
> you want 12pt fonts. To my eye, there is no difference between the two.
> But pdffonts tells me that latex is using LM Math Italic 8pt while ConTeXt
> is using LM Math Italic 9pt. This is not conclusive evidence since the
> fonts could be scaled.

Yes, it seemed to me that the font was a bit larger in ConTeXt than in LaTeX, so
9pt vs 8pt seems coherent with that feeling. Of course, I had to zoom to see a
real difference...

>
> In any case, if you want to change ConTeXt's defaults for 12pt, you can
> redefine the following
>
> \unprotect
> \definebodyfontenvironment
>    [\!!twelvepoint]
>    [        \s!text=\!!twelvepoint,
>           \s!script=\!!ninepoint,
>     \s!scriptscript=\!!sevenpoint,
>                \c!x=\!!tenpoint,
>               \c!xx=\!!eightpoint,
>              \c!big=\!!fourteenpointfour,
>            \c!small=\!!tenpoint]
> \protect
>
> This is just copied from font-ini.tex. You can use 12pt, 11pt etc rather
> than the predefined macros if you want.

Thank you for this solution. I'll try it if I don't get used to the ConTeXt
size.

>
> Aditya
>
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