Difference between * and \ast

Difference between * and \ast

[Aditya Mahajan]

Hi,

$*$ not behave the same as $\ast$ in math mode with any unicode font.
(The output of \ast is correct)

Minimal example:

\setupbodyfont[cambria]
\starttext
$a*b$ $a\ast b$
\stoptext

At first glance, I could not find anything wrong with char-def.lua

Aditya
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Re: Difference between * and \ast

[Hans Hagen]

On 11/14/2012 12:51 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> $*$ not behave the same as $\ast$ in math mode with any unicode font.
> (The output of \ast is correct)
>
> Minimal example:
>
> \setupbodyfont[cambria]
> \starttext
> $a*b$ $a\ast b$
> \stoptext
>
> At first glance, I could not find anything wrong with char-def.lua

it's one of the three border cases (/ is another one) ... unfortunately 
the remapping gets overwritten later on (side effect of multiple 
classes) so i did a fix ... hopefully it doesn't break something

Now we need to figure out why xits looks crappy with the slash

\setupbodyfont[xits]

\starttext

     $a*b$ $a\ast b$

     $a/b$ $a\slash b$

\stoptext


Hans

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