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On 5/6/2014 4:22 PM, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
Continuing my recent theme of finding glyphs too low or too high:
The \pm symbol looks like it is set too low, in MkIV.
\setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext $\pm2$ \stoptext
The minus part of the sign lies below the baseline, which looks odd relative to the horizontal stroke of the "2."
In MkII it is fine, as is the equivalent latex or plain tex (using LatinModern).
I don't know whether the problem lis in the font metrics or in the positioning by MkIV, because I haven't yet been able to convince tex, latex, lualatex, or luatex to use the same font (LM math).
In MkIV, the font is (from pdffonts):
NSOXNN+LatinModernMath-Regular CID Type 0C Identity-H
Can anyone confirm the problem?
\starttext $x \pm 2 + a $\par \switchtobodyfont[pagella] $x \pm 2 + a $\par \switchtobodyfont[termes] $x \pm 2 + a $\par \switchtobodyfont[cambria] $x \pm 2 + a $\par \switchtobodyfont[bonum] $x \pm 2 + a $\par \switchtobodyfont[schola] $x \pm 2 + a $\par \stoptext all minus' are below the baseline so consider it a feature 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------