Re: an ugly bug

["Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>]

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.

Best
Idris

-- 
Professor Idris Samawi Hamid
Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, CO 80523

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