Re: an ugly bug

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Idris Samawi Hamid wrote:

> Hi Taco,
>
> On Tue, 22 May 2007 01:39:55 -0600, Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>
> wrote:
>
>>>>> This is an ugly bug; The right kerning of the the numeral '1' is
>>>>> really
>>>>> bad:
>>>> The latin-modern-os typescript uses the widths of the table figures
>>>> with the oldstyle shapes, because latin modern does not ship with
>>>> correct metrics for oldstyle digits.
>>>
>>> So it's an lm bug then. Any possibility of getting it fixed, or sending
>>> the maintainers an urgent note (might be more effective coming from you
>>> or
>>> Hans)?
>>
>> If you want these metrics, it makes sense to drop them a note. But no
>> way are they going to create new metrics for you before next Thursday,
>> so we had better come up with something else. I can create a bunch of
>> metrics for you, but I do not have time to create hundreds of these
>> by hand, so tell me: are you using 'modern-base, texnansi' in your
>> actual project as well?
>
> Here is my exact setup for the project:
>
> =====================
> \usetypescript[serif,sans,mono][hanging][hz,normal]
> \setupalign[hz,hanging]
> \usetypescript[modern-base][texnansi]  % a simplified latin-modern
> typescript
> \usetypescript [map]   [latin-modern-os] [texnansi]
> \setupbodyfont[reset]
> \setupbodyfont[modern,11pt]
> =====================
>
> 2 problems:
>
> i)  bad kerning (subject of this thread);
>
> ii) \type gives way to complaints about missing numerals in lmtt10 (see
> other thread "oldstyle bug"). Apparently the <numeral>.oldstyle glyphs
> have been renamed <numeral>.taoldstyle. WHY ON EARTH would they do that?!?
> Didn't the maintainers realize this would break things? It certainly makes
> encoding font collections more difficult.
>
> This is a journal so I need to maintain consistency: can't go back to
> upright.

Maybe as a temporary workaround, try to get old lmodern files and use 
them instead. I do not know if they are archived somewhere or not.

Aditya
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