From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: math: ± and ∓ are shifted
Date: Thu, 4 Apr 2013 18:13:02 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1304041808280.26849@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <515DF949.4000301@wxs.nl>
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On Fri, 5 Apr 2013, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/4/2013 11:44 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>> On Thu, 4 Apr 2013, Xenia wrote:
>>
>>> Hi context list,
>>>
>>> I noticed that the ∓ sign is a little higher than the ± sign, so that
>>> the + signs are at the same height. But this looks strange and should be
>>> changed.
>>
>> Indeed. These look very odd. I tested this with cambria and the outcome
>> is similar, so this is not a font bug, but something wrong in ConTeXt's
>> math handling.
>
> I'm not sure if I understand the issue
>
> - lm has + and - touching with the + in the same position as the regular +
>
> - cambria has a gap between + and - and moves the + up and down
>
> Afaik context isn't doing any magic here as these are precomposed glyphs that
> directly map.
>
> $a \ruledhbox{$+$} b \ruledhbox{$-$} c$
>
> $a \ruledhbox{$±$} b \ruledhbox{$∓$} c$
>
> they are 'binary' in math mode, just like + and -
The question is not about the shape of the glyph, but their location.
But after looking at the output of latex for CM and Cambria, I am no
longer sure what the correct output should be. For Cambria, ConTeXt and
LaTeX give similar outputs. For CM/LM they give different outputs.
Aditya
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-04-04 21:36 Xenia
2013-04-04 21:44 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-04-04 22:06 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-04 22:13 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2013-04-04 22:55 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-05 0:16 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-04-05 7:32 ` Hans Hagen
2013-04-05 13:46 ` Hans Hagen
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