Re: Incorrect rendering of * with UTF math fonts

[Otared Kavian <otared@gmail.com>]

Hi Aditya,

I tried your code: as you say with LM there is no problem, but with the simplefonts module nothing i stypeset since I get an error message:

<to be read again> 
                   \3>simplefonts:1-12pt-mm-mr--3 
\font_helpers_preset_math_family_indeed ...csname 
                                                  \scriptfont #1\csname \??f...
\font_helpers_set_math_family ...amily_indeed #1#2
                                                  \else \font_helpers_set_ma...
\font_helpers_bidirectional_mathstrategy_nop ...r 
                                                  \textfont \c_font_fam_mr_r...
<inserted text> ...bidirectional_mathstrategy_nop 
                                                  \fi \font_helpers_apply_co...
\font_helpers_synchronize_math ...math_strategies 
                                                  \fi 
...

This is with ConTeXt  ver: 2012.02.21 00:51 MKIV.

Best regards: OK

On 22 févr. 2012, at 20:52, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Using * in superscripts gives wrong glyph size and spacing.
> 
> For example, with LM math everyhing looks fine:
> 
> \starttext
> $x^*$ vs $x^{\ast}$
> \stoptext
> 
> With Cambria, the result is OK (but you can still see the differences in the spacing of * in x^*)
> 
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmathfont[Cambria]
> \starttext
> $x^*$ vs $x^{\ast}$
> \stoptext
> 
> With Neo Euler, $x^*$ look really bad.
> 
> \usemodule[simplefonts]
> \setmathfont[Cambria]
> \starttext
> $x^*$ vs $x^{\ast}$
> \stoptext
> 
> I cannot figure out why this is happening. It definitely looks like a bug at the context end rather than a bug with the fonts.
> 
> Aditya
> 
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