strange

strange

[Hans Hagen]

Hi,

I maybe wrong but it looks like glyphs have different dimensions in 
different encodings:

\hbox
   {\font\test=uplr8t \test \ruledhbox{t}
    \font\test=uplr8r \test \ruledhbox{t}}

Hans
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Re: strange

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> writes:

Hi,

> I maybe wrong but it looks like glyphs have different dimensions in
> different encodings:
> 
> \hbox
>    {\font\test=uplr8t \test \ruledhbox{t}
>     \font\test=uplr8r \test \ruledhbox{t}}

that is what I have found in the tfm files:

pplr8r

(CHARACTER C t
   (CHARWD R 0.325989)
   (CHARHT R 0.638995)
   (CHARDP R 0.0065)
   )

pplr8t 

(CHARACTER C t
   (CHARWD R 0.325989)
   (CHARHT R 0.605993)
   (CHARDP R 0.002996)
   )

really strange.

Patrick

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Re: strange

[Taco]

On 08 May 2002 10:14:53 +0200
"Patrick Gundlach" <pg@levana.de> wrote:

> > I maybe wrong but it looks like glyphs have different dimensions in
> > different encodings:
> > 
> > \hbox
> >    {\font\test=uplr8t \test \ruledhbox{t}
> >     \font\test=uplr8r \test \ruledhbox{t}}
> 
> 
> that is what I have found in the tfm files:

Heights and depths are often rounded somewhat because there are not 
that many distinct values that can be saved in a TFM file. 

Different encoding usually equals different glyphs, and therefore 
different rounding errors. The width usually does not have that problem,
since more values can be saved and characters usually don't change
width when an accent is added.