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From: "Stefan Müller" <warrence.stm@gmx.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Comma spacing in math mode
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:26:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D6BA298.6030100@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110227232042.GA14942@khaled-laptop>

On 28.02.2011 00:20, Khaled Hosny wrote:
> 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

Ah, okay. Too bad. Some time ago I was wondering if there's something 
like "kerning" in math mode, too. Does that mean it would work if I 
switch to cambria math fonts?

Stefan
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-28 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.945.1297930263.4223.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
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
2011-02-28 13:26             ` Stefan Müller [this message]
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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