From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/78451 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: xits font: some spacing and scaling problems Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:01:35 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20120927165338.GA30843@khaled-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1348765170 20663 80.91.229.3 (27 Sep 2012 16:59:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2012 16:59:30 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Sep 27 18:59:36 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1THHR0-000407-Rv for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20B14101F0; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:29 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id qlOFuRFREaLK; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 619FA101E7; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:27 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9F09101E7 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:25 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id mDePobMvSftv for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter2-utr.mf.surf.net (filter2-utr.mf.surf.net [195.169.124.153]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AD38101E5 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.12.86]) by filter2-utr.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q8RGxLWm021927 for ; Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:59:23 +0200 Original-Received: FROM Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA (Decentralized.ECE.McGill.CA [132.206.69.142]) By tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 506485E8.80D5B.25583 ; Authuser adityam; 27 Sep 2012 12:59:20 EDT In-Reply-To: <20120927165338.GA30843@khaled-laptop> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.12.86; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 04I4gXmSB - 1f7b2934f87d - 20120927 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 195.169.124.153 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:78451 Archived-At: On Thu, 27 Sep 2012, Khaled Hosny wrote: > On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 04:58:11PM +0200, Andreas Mang wrote: >> Hi there, >> >> Not quite sure if this is the right place. I wanted to send this >> directly to Khaled Hosny, but then I thought it might be good to have >> some additional opinion on some of these issues (I am not quite sure >> if some of this is intended behaviour). >> >> I have collected some examples for which I think there are some >> scaling and spacing problems in xits. >> >> Also, small caps are not supported. Is this intended?! >> >> Thanks for your help. >> >> Cheers, >> Andreas >> >> >> %%%%%%%%%%%% MINIMAL EXAMPLE %%%%%%%%%%%% >> \setupbodyfont[xits,11pt] >> >> \starttext >> $\diamond$ % too small?! >> >> $\square$ % OK?! >> >> $\blacktriangleright$ % too big?! >> >> $\blacktriangleleft$ % too big?! >> >> $\blacktriangle$ % too big?! >> >> $\blacktriangledown$ % too big?! > > None of those glyphs were changed in XITS, they are exactly the same as > the ones in STIX fonts, so possibly ConTeXt is using the wrong Unicode > character for those symbols. The later two are smaller with LaTeX > package unicode-math. That is most likely the issue. I never really understood what all these triangles should map to. Should we target unicode-math the reference implmentation? Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________