From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: ssty feature is not activated for math
Date: Sat, 19 Jun 2010 00:15:03 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100618211503.GB17144@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C0EA7978-53DC-43A5-943B-4F942F498F8C@gmail.com>
On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 10:33:56PM +0200, Otared Kavian wrote:
> On 18 juin 2010, at 17:43, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>
> > Compare the size of the primes with xits, cambria and modern, only the
> > later is correct.
>
> Hi Khaled, Hi Hans,
>
> Thank you so much to bith of you and all other people involved in the project for giving us so rapidly the ability to use stix, and xits, fonts.
> I tried for a week or so both stix and xits fonts on many of the documents I have in ConTeXt. I can say that as far as simple text is concerned everything works like a charm. However, regarding stix and xits there are some issues with math mode:
>
> • With stix fonts, the integral sign doesn't scale up correctly, and the placement and maybe the sizes of the indices and derivative signs are incorrect.
If they did, then there wouldn't be any reason for xits to exits :)
> • With xits fonts, the integral sign is correct but the placement of the indices and exponents are not always correct (see the example below). Also for some reasons the greek letters are not anymore italicized.
I run your test and the lower case Greek is italic. The *script
placement on the text integral is wrong, looks like the italic
correction is either ignored or applied incorrectly.
> I have also a question regarding the use of calligraphic script style, like the font rsfs, which are contained in xits and stix: how can one use them?
\cal ?
--
Khaled Hosny
Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
Free font developer
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-06-18 15:43 Khaled Hosny
2010-06-18 19:49 ` Hans Hagen
2010-06-18 20:33 ` Otared Kavian
2010-06-18 21:15 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2010-06-19 5:29 ` Otared Kavian
2010-06-19 13:01 ` Khaled Hosny
2010-06-18 22:19 ` Hans Hagen
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