From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: dejavu: inline math fraction spacing too tight?
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 10:57:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131025085731.GA20897@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52699DEF.9050307@wxs.nl>
On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 07:23:43AM +0900, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 10/24/2013 2:46 PM, "H. Özoguz" wrote:
> >>\setupbodyfont [dejavu,12pt]
> >>\starttext
> >>$a/b$
> >>
> >>$1/2$
> >>
> >>$π/3$
> >>\stoptext
> >>
> >>Is this indeed the desired spacing? What do others think?
> >>
> >>Thanks.
> >
> >I think you are right, I don't know if this is really desired, but I
> >don't think so. Escpecially one gets problems with "2" in the denominator.
> >
> >\setupbodyfont [dejavu,12pt]
> >\starttext
> >$1/2$
> >
> >$1\,/\,2$
> >\stoptext
> >
> >The second hand-tuned example is obviously nicer.
>
> it looks like a font issue to me .. i could hack a solution but prefer not
> to do that (the less exceptions we have the better)
Not a font issue. ConTeXt is using the fraction slash (which is intended
to be used with vulgar fractions) not the regular slash.
Regards,
Khaled
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-24 5:46 "H. Özoguz"
2013-10-24 22:23 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-25 8:08 ` Alan BRASLAU
2013-10-25 8:14 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-10-25 8:26 ` Alan BRASLAU
2013-10-25 8:57 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2013-10-25 22:49 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-26 12:06 ` Khaled Hosny
[not found] ` <20131026085337.17c9e1df@iram-hb-003386.extra.cea.fr>
2013-10-26 13:22 ` Hans Hagen
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2013-10-23 16:44 Alan BRASLAU
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