From: Andreas Harder <aharder@uni-koblenz.de>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Comma spacing in math mode
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:20:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51FA471F-8CB6-42D8-8DAE-70F9125CD706@uni-koblenz.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.01.1102271811520.16108@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>
Am 28.02.2011 um 00:14 schrieb Aditya Mahajan:
> On Mon, 28 Feb 2011, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 23:49, Stefan Müller <warrence.stm@gmx.de> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> On 27.02.2011 20:58, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, 27 Feb 2011, S Barmeier wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> I don't know if anyone feels the same, but I'm not happy with the
>>>>> spacing of commas in math mode (pictures attached). For instance,
>>>>> typesetting H^1(X,F), the comma seems to be closer to the F than to the
>>>>> X. Equal spacing on both sides or setting the comma closer to the X are
>>>>> I guess a matter of taste (inserting a \neghairspace after the X
>>>>> achieves the latter). In any case, I would kind of prefer equal spacing.
>>>>
>>>> \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=no]
>>>>
>>>> @Hans: I would suggest that this should be made the default.
>>>
>>> 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.
As it comes to math, there is still this ugly rendering of $n\choose k$ … with all OpenType math fonts.
Andreas
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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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
2011-02-28 14:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-27 23:20 ` Andreas Harder [this message]
2011-02-27 23:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
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