From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/8150 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Umlaut vs. diaresis Date: Thu, 06 Jun 2002 09:08:19 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020606090542.0321f6e8@server-1> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398579 25126 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:42:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:42:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mari.voipio@iki.fi, ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Eckhart =?iso-8859-1?Q?Guth=F6hrlein?= In-Reply-To: <1023300526.507.13.camel@hades> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:8150 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:8150 At 08:08 PM 6/5/2002 +0200, Eckhart Guthöhrlein wrote: >Am Die, 2002-05-14 um 12.24 schrieb mari.voipio@iki.fi: > > The result of the above is that we usually place the dots (diaeresis) or > > rings quite close to the rest of the character as they are parts of the > > same glyph. In ConTeXt the closest presentation of this seems to be, funny > > enough, \aumlaut and \oumlaut while there isn't any fix to å (a ring); /aa > > (or å directly from my Finnish keyboard) really looks odd in the ConTeXt > > output as the ring is very thin and quite high up, looks a bit like it is > > about to fly away. :-) > >I also wondered about the odd appearance of \Aring (when using my >favorite unit, \Angstrom). The reason is, as far as I have traced it, >that context defaults to the ae fonts. The respective glyphs in the ec >fonts look much better. >I have been absent from ec / type1 issues for some time, so a question >from my part: Are the freely available type1 versions of these fonts >mature enough and included in the major distributions, so they could be >used instead of the ae fonts by default? If so, I think this should be >considered. there is the (bulky) cm super set (never tried them) which you can give a try also, there's a user group project going on with regards to a "replacement" for aer/plr/csr, so a kind of super-ec thing, non virtual type 1, also with chars like euro; that is a good moment to improve the aring Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------