From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \pm set too low in MkIV?
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 20:14:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53692669.6030101@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87vbtjrnpb.fsf@approx.mit.edu>
On 5/6/2014 4:22 PM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> Continuing my recent theme of finding glyphs too low or too high:
>
> The \pm symbol looks like it is set too low, in MkIV.
>
> \setuppagenumbering[location=]
> \starttext
> $\pm2$
> \stoptext
>
> The minus part of the sign lies below the baseline, which looks odd
> relative to the horizontal stroke of the "2."
>
> In MkII it is fine, as is the equivalent latex or plain tex (using
> LatinModern).
>
> I don't know whether the problem lis in the font metrics or in the
> positioning by MkIV, because I haven't yet been able to convince tex,
> latex, lualatex, or luatex to use the same font (LM math).
>
> In MkIV, the font is (from pdffonts):
>
> NSOXNN+LatinModernMath-Regular CID Type 0C Identity-H
>
> Can anyone confirm the problem?
\starttext
$x \pm 2 + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[pagella] $x \pm 2 + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[termes] $x \pm 2 + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[cambria] $x \pm 2 + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[bonum] $x \pm 2 + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[schola] $x \pm 2 + a $\par
\stoptext
all minus' are below the baseline so consider it a feature
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-06 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-06 14:22 Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-05-06 14:41 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2014-05-06 14:56 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-05-06 19:09 ` Hans Hagen
2014-05-06 18:14 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2014-05-06 18:28 ` Otared Kavian
2014-05-06 19:08 ` Hans Hagen
2014-05-07 0:34 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2014-05-07 8:46 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2014-05-07 9:38 ` Otared Kavian
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