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: Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:06:58 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131026120658.GB22832@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <526AF597.3040700@wxs.nl>
On Sat, Oct 26, 2013 at 07:49:59AM +0900, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 10/25/2013 5:57 PM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> >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.
>
> the problem is that (last time i looked into this) all math fonts had it
> differently so i (for the moment) setteld on it
I'd use the regular slash and consider fonts without a proper one
(depends on what you expect from the slash) to be broken. Incidentally,
unicode-math package provide an option to select which slash character
to use because of this.
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
2013-10-25 22:49 ` Hans Hagen
2013-10-26 12:06 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
[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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