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country=US; region=Massachusetts; city=Cambridge; latitude=42.3931; longitude=-71.1345; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.3931,-71.1345&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0NLWMyKiM - 133aa3cfc6bb - 20140507 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 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:87272 Archived-At: > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________