Re: Italic correction is missing.

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Mehdi Omidali wrote:
> Hi
> If you run
> \starttext
> \startformula
> V) V\exists F\exists
> \stopformula
> \stoptext
> the space between V and ) for example is not correct. (luatex .50)

The reason why there is no italic correction is because luatex
sees a simple list of mathords, and it does not apply italic
corrections between those when a 'new math font' is being used.
(if it did, operators like "sin" would come out badly).
Instead, it relies on ordinary inter-glyph kerning.

I am not at all sure what the best solution for this is, as I have no
idea how MS Word differentiates between the formula above and
'multi-letter identifiers'. Perhaps luatex should look at the \catcode
of the characters in question? Or perhaps these inter-char kerns
actually exist in Cambria?

Best wishes,
Taco
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