Re: [NTG-context] \pm set too low in MkIV?

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 mailto:pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

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[…] 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------