Why is the \vec{} arrow too short in some cases? Compare $\vec{X}$ to $\vec{Y}$.
The MWE below looks wrong in the default font and is even uglier when pagella is used.
Alan
%\setupbodyfont [pagella]
\starttext $\vec{X}$ vs. $\vec{Y}$ \stoptext As this is has been the logic in tex font design for more than 3 decades, there's not much that we can do about it apart from patching
On 12/27/2017 7:01 PM, Alan Braslau wrote: the font (doable but somewhat nasty and boring as we then need to patch specific elements of (each) hvariant and it falls in the category "hard to motivate myself for"). \showglyphs \starttext \start \dorecurse{50}{$\vec{\blackrule[width=#1pt]}$\space}\unskip\par \stop \blank \start \switchtobodyfont [pagella] \dorecurse{50}{$\vec{\blackrule[width=#1pt]}$\space}\unskip\par \stop \blank \start \switchtobodyfont [cambria] \dorecurse{50}{$\vec{\blackrule[width=#1pt]}$\space}\unskip\par \stop \stoptext Shows that it's a font design issue: the extensible has a threshold related to the middle part and it should (1) have at least one more fixed size, or (2) have one fixed size and for the rest be extensible but that would be somewhat inefficient ion most cases, so (3) here we have a trade-off. Just blame the font ... cambria is (of course) ok. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------