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 21:08:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5369331F.5080806@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5BDBF115-CAED-4423-8F67-4F66B43F0AA4@gmail.com>
On 5/6/2014 8:28 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> Thanks for your attention to the issue pointed out by Sanjoy.
>
> On 6 mai 2014, at 20:14, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl
> <mailto:pragma@wxs.nl>> wrote:
>> […]
>> all minus' are below the baseline so consider it a feature
>
> Yes this is the case in recent versions of mkiv, but in Plain TeX and
> mkii this is not the case: there the minus sign in \pm is aligned with
> the baseline.
>
> I agree with Sanjoy and Mikael to say that it the minus sign in \pm
> should be aligned with the baseline: however I don’t know if this can be
> easily achieved.
so how about \mp then ...
\starttext
$x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[pagella] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[termes] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[cambria] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[bonum] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[schola] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\stoptext
the + aligns on the math axis so one can argue if the type-one variant
is ok ... so we would need a smaller (less height) + then which would
look visually weird
(all can be achieved ... but the idea of lm/gyre fonts is to provide an
acceptable consistent set ... at some point we can think of variants -
or maybe the fonts have a variant already)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-06 19:08 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
2014-05-06 18:28 ` Otared Kavian
2014-05-06 19:08 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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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