On 5/6/2014 8:28 PM, Otared Kavian wrote:
Hi Hans,
Thanks for your attention to the issue pointed out by Sanjoy.
On 6 mai 2014, at 20:14, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl
<mailto:pra...@wxs.nl>> wrote:
[…]
all minus' are below the baseline so consider it a feature
Yes this is the case in recent versions of mkiv, but in Plain TeX and
mkii this is not the case: there the minus sign in \pm is aligned with
the baseline.
I agree with Sanjoy and Mikael to say that it the minus sign in \pm
should be aligned with the baseline: however I don’t know if this can be
easily achieved.
so how about \mp then ...
\starttext
$x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[pagella] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[termes] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[cambria] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[bonum] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\switchtobodyfont[schola] $x \pm 2 + \mp x + a $\par
\stoptext
the + aligns on the math axis so one can argue if the type-one variant
is ok ... so we would need a smaller (less height) + then which would
look visually weird
(all can be achieved ... but the idea of lm/gyre fonts is to provide an
acceptable consistent set ... at some point we can think of variants -
or maybe the fonts have a variant already)
Hans
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