From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/87268 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \pm set too low in MkIV? Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 20:14:01 +0200 Message-ID: <53692669.6030101@wxs.nl> References: <87vbtjrnpb.fsf@approx.mit.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1399406151 20387 80.91.229.3 (6 May 2014 19:55:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 May 2014 19:55:51 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue May 06 21:55:47 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([5.39.185.229]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Whjsm-0005E3-FG for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 May 2014 20:14:24 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107641023C for ; Tue, 6 May 2014 20:14:24 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id wdy3bc+tltdy for ; Tue, 6 May 2014 20:14:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A7C210223 for ; Tue, 6 May 2014 20:14:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70FCD101E2 for ; Tue, 6 May 2014 20:14:15 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 2XobiW++6nHu for ; Tue, 6 May 2014 20:14:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (filter2-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.70]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B2F46101E1 for ; Tue, 6 May 2014 20:14:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter2-ams.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id s46IE3oY032543 for ; Tue, 6 May 2014 20:14:13 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.103; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.103] (unverified [10.100.1.103]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.5a2) with ESMTP id 672-1713362 for ; Tue, 06 May 2014 20:14:02 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.3; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 In-Reply-To: <87vbtjrnpb.fsf@approx.mit.edu> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: ntg-context@ntg.nl, base:default, @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=Provincie Overijssel; city=Zwolle; latitude=52.5058; longitude=6.0858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.5058,6.0858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0QLWGe3bM - 31db2a6b9aa4 - 20140506 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.70 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:87268 Archived-At: 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________