From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: xrightarrow is not straight
Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2018 13:06:23 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.76.44.1808071304380.10013@ervasbepr.pvz.zptvyy.pn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180807090107.1890bb22@poo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
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On Tue, 7 Aug 2018, Alan Braslau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> You can also use MetaPost to render math stackers, rather than relying
> on TeX constructs and any particular font.
>
> For example:
>
>
> \useMPlibrary[mat]
>
> \definemathstackers
> [mp]
> [alternative=mp]
>
> \definemathextensible [mp] [leftarrow] ["2190]
> \definemathextensible [mp] [rightarrow] ["2192]
> \definemathextensible [mp] [leftrightarrow] ["2194]
> \definemathextensible [mp] [longleftrightarrow] ["27F7]
> \definemathextensible [mp] [rightoverleftarrow] ["21C4]
> \definemathextensible [mp] [underbrace] ["FE3DF]
>
> \setupbodyfont [dejavu-condensed,12pt]
>
> \starttext
> $\rightarrow{≠a}$
> \stoptext
>
>
>
> Furthermore, the MP arrow can be tuned
>
> \startMPinitializations
>
> ahlength := .5EmWidth ;
> ahvariant := 1 ; % dimpled straight
>
> \stopMPinitializations
>
> as can line widths, etc.
Shouldn't we use a dedicated MP instance for stackers?
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-07 17:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-08-07 8:42 Joshua Moerman
2018-08-07 15:01 ` Alan Braslau
2018-08-07 17:06 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2018-08-07 17:32 ` Alan Braslau
2018-08-08 10:39 ` Joshua Moerman
2018-08-07 17:04 ` Aditya Mahajan
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