Re: free keycaps font

[Nikolai Weibull <mailing-lists.context-users@rawuncut.elitemail.org>]

Stuart Jansen wrote:

> On Mon, 2005-09-12 at 23:08 +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:

> > Stuart Jansen wrote:

> > > As far as I can tell, ConTeXt doesn't include a keycaps font. I
> > > recently created my own and would like to share it with anyone
> > > else that might find it useful. I've included a sample document
> > > with it. If you're on a *nix system with a working copy of ConTeXt
> > > and make, just type "make" to build it.

> > Very nice!  I would like them to lay closer to a standard baseline,
> > though,

> I'm not sure what you mean by "lay closer to a standard baseline".

Neither am I...

> The baseline of the glyph inside the key is aligned with text outside
> the key. I waffled back and forth trying to find the most attractive
> position while building the font. The majority of keycaps fonts I
> looked at chose the same baseline.

Ah, of course.  That's perhaps as good as it gets,
        nikolai

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