From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Comma spacing in math mode
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 01:20:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110227232042.GA14942@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1102271811520.16108@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 06:14:36PM -0500, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> >>IMO this does only partially help, consider the following example:
> >>
> >>\starttext
> >>$(B, Y, R, X)$
> >>\setupmathematics[autopunctuation=no]
> >>$(B, Y, R, X)$
> >>\stoptext
> >>
> >>In both lines the spacing after "Y" is way to big. I don't know if that's a
> >>bug or just ugly. (version 2011.02.15 16:11)
> >
> >In text parts this is known as kerning. In OpenType math there are
> >complex bounding boxes.
>
> I would call it a bug. The spacing is OK with cambria, but not with xits.
Because Cambria implements math kerning that Mojca is referring too,
XITS don't (and will not in the near future unless someone steps to
implement it; pretty tedious job).
Regards,
Khaled
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-02-27 3:07 ` S Barmeier
2011-02-27 19:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-02-27 22:49 ` Stefan Müller
2011-02-27 23:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-27 23:13 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-27 23:14 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-02-27 23:20 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2011-02-28 13:26 ` Stefan Müller
2011-02-28 14:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-27 23:20 ` Andreas Harder
2011-02-27 23:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
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