From: Mojca Miklavec <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Comma spacing in math mode
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:13:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=GuBkENctwpsq9iXJ5QXdi1Vb2kSHw9GELgEHR@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikQ_p4HnUpdGR5jgbP1eaT9FNt7Jg7nknGiP18n@mail.gmail.com>
On Mon, Feb 28, 2011 at 00:10, Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 27, 2011 at 23:49, Stefan Müller wrote:
>>
>> \starttext
>> $(B, Y, R, X)$
>> \setupmathematics[autopunctuation=no]
>> $(B, Y, R, X)$
>> \stoptext
>>
>> In both lines the spacing after "Y" is way to big. I don't know if that's a
>> bug or just ugly. (version 2011.02.15 16:11)
>
> In text parts this is known as kerning. In OpenType math there are
> complex bounding boxes.
(I accidentally sent the email too early.)
I wanted to add that unless/until somebody implements complex bounding
boxes (OpenType Math font for whatever font you are using), you cannot
avoid the problem. TeX has no idea how big Y is, it only knows its
rectangular bounding box. Cases like this one have to be manually
tuned.
Mojca
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Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2011-02-27 3:07 ` S Barmeier
2011-02-27 19:58 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-02-27 22:49 ` Stefan Müller
2011-02-27 23:10 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-27 23:13 ` Mojca Miklavec [this message]
2011-02-27 23:14 ` Aditya Mahajan
2011-02-27 23:20 ` Khaled Hosny
2011-02-28 13:26 ` Stefan Müller
2011-02-28 14:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-27 23:20 ` Andreas Harder
2011-02-27 23:21 ` Mojca Miklavec
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