From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Fwd: Re: Math kerning broken in latest beta
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:23:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1c815d0d-6e56-3ee1-eefe-fdf7a5466531@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f7dc796b-5055-2aa5-ab02-e45c8b637ed5@xs4all.nl>
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Subject: Re: [NTG-context] Math kerning broken in latest beta
Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:23:18 +0200
From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: Ulrike Fischer <news3@nililand.de>
On 4/11/2018 4:27 PM, Ulrike Fischer wrote:
> Am Wed, 11 Apr 2018 15:26:34 +0200 schrieb Hans Hagen:
>
>> The usual 'math italic mess' where fonts assume italic correction
>> instead of proper math kerns.
>
> Do you know a (free) math font with proper math kerns? I made a fast
> search through the lua files of my font cache but couldn't find
> anything saying "mathkern".
afaik only cambria has them but there has been a discussion about adding
them to gyre fonts but even italics and other thinsg are somewhat
inconsistent ... for instance some fonts have a traditional tex kind of
boundingbox approach, some don't .. it's a mess
Hans
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2018-04-11 15:23 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2018-04-11 22:10 ` Ulrike Fischer
2018-04-12 8:06 ` Hans Hagen
2018-04-20 14:22 ` Ulrike Fischer
2018-04-22 18:08 ` Hans Hagen
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