From: Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@MIT.EDU>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \pm set too low in MkIV?
Date: Tue, 06 May 2014 20:34:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lhueqvdw.fsf@approx.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5369331F.5080806@wxs.nl>
> 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
Plain TeX doesn't align the plus/minus to the math axis. Rather, the
minus is aligned to the baseline, and the horizontal stroke of the plus
is above the baseline. I agree that it looks a bit strange with the
horizontal stroke of the plus sign not aligned with the horizontal
stroke of the plus/minus. Bt it looks even more jarring to have the
minus below the baseline, because the baseline is such a strong visual
line.
I don't think I've ever the minus below the baseline in a math book, and
it looks very wrong to my eye.
Pagella looks worse than the others, because it has a vertical gap
between the minus and the plus sign, so the depth below the baseline is
even larger.
> (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)
I realize that it's not a ConTeXt problem, but is there a ConTeXt
workaround? Or better to go to the TeX guts and compute the depth of
the box, then use \raise{}?
-Sanjoy
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-07 0:34 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
2014-05-07 0:34 ` Sanjoy Mahajan [this message]
2014-05-07 8:46 ` Mikael P. Sundqvist
2014-05-07 9:38 ` Otared Kavian
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