From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Nicola <nvitacolonna@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Define new symbol by stitching two symbols together
Date: Mon, 24 May 2021 15:46:19 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2105241542300.1573968@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32a267a6-aab9-39fe-d2c3-a2df25822ce0@xs4all.nl>
On Sun, 23 May 2021, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 5/22/2021 8:23 PM, Nicola wrote:
> > I would like to define new symbols by stitching together existing
> > glyphs. This is what I have come up so far:
> >
> > \define[1]\Transition{-\!\![#1]\!\!\rightarrow}
> > \starttext
> > \m{L\Transition{A}R}
> > \stoptext
> >
> > This should render as -[ ]->, ideally with no space between the dash or
> > the arrow and the brackets, i.e., -[ should appear like a single glyph;
> > ditto for ]-->. With the definition above, however, the space is
> > variable, and in some circumstances the gliphs overlap.
> >
> > How can I improve the above definition?
> don't use these funny \! skips ... use some font related metric:
>
> \define[1]\Transition{-\kern-1ex[#1]\kern-1.1ex\rightarrow}
This is how we used to define arrows in the old days ...
\define[1]\Transition{\relbar\joinrel\mathrel{[}#1\mathrel{]}\joinrel\rightarrow}
\define[1]\BigTransition{\relbar\joinrel\relbar\joinrel\mathrel{[}#1\mathrel{]}\joinrel\relbar\joinrel\rightarrow}
\starttext
\m{L\Transition{A}R}
\m{L\BigTransition{A}R}
\stoptext
Aditya
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-22 18:23 Nicola
2021-05-23 10:00 ` Hans Hagen
2021-05-24 19:46 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2021-05-24 20:14 ` Nicola
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