From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/38761 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: morgan.brassel@free.fr Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Superscript text size Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:08 +0100 Message-ID: <1200993608.4795b548cde3d@imp.free.fr> References: <1200921285.47949ac5a8326@imp.free.fr> <1200959879.479531878a53b@imp.free.fr> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200993725 28929 80.91.229.12 (22 Jan 2008 09:22:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2008 09:22:05 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Jan 22 10:22:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JHFKi-00053K-AK for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:22:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107901FBC9; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:21:36 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25241-01-3; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FDF41FB74; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A101FBBD for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 25241-01-2 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:15 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (smtp6-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.36]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 433511FB74 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:11 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from smtp6-g19.free.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FB05FE3C for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from imp4-g19.free.fr (imp4-g19.free.fr [212.27.42.4]) by smtp6-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6954F5FED9 for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by imp4-g19.free.fr (Postfix, from userid 33) id 4B7691341; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from pas38-3-82-226-102-214.fbx.proxad.net (pas38-3-82-226-102-214.fbx.proxad.net [82.226.102.214]) by imp.free.fr (IMP) with HTTP for ; Tue, 22 Jan 2008 10:20:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 3.2.8 X-Originating-IP: 82.226.102.214 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:38761 Archived-At: Selon Aditya Mahajan : > On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, morgan.brassel@free.fr wrote: > > > Selon Aditya Mahajan : > > > >> 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________