From: Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Prescript in ConTeXt
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 09:06:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <462714EC.80803@elvenkind.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.WNT.0.98.0704181626150.3440@nqvgln>
Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Actually, I only want a pre superscipt, so the following works for me
>
> \def\presuper#1#2%
> {\mathop{}% To prevent preceeding mathord atoms to approach
> \mathopen{\vphantom{#2}}^{#1}% To prevent space between prescript
> % and next atom.
> \kern-\scriptspace% remove the space introduced by superscript
> #2}
>
>
> This is not perfect, especially with characters with large left
> "slope" like A. Any suggestions for improving the macro?
There is no way to fix that automatically, because TeX does not
have 'italic correction' information for the left-side of a glyph.
Best, Taco
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-19 7:06 UTC|newest]
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2007-04-18 20:03 Aditya Mahajan
2007-04-18 20:49 ` Aditya Mahajan
2007-04-19 7:06 ` Taco Hoekwater [this message]
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