On Mon, 4 May 2020, Hans Hagen wrote:
On 5/4/2020 8:47 AM, context@vivaldi.net wrote:
Hello,
compare placing "3" in the following examples:
---- \starttext $\sqrt[3]{5}$ % (1) \par $\sqrt[3~]{5}$ % (2) \stoptext ----
In the first case, the "3" is placed naturally by ConTeXt and placed more in the centre of "V" part of the square sign.
In the second example, the "3" is shifted manually by adding "~" and the final placement seems to me a bit better.
What is your opinion - is the case (1) OK/intended and user should avoid any manual shifting?
Or manual shifting is OK? Or is there a way to affect this placement globally in ConTeXt, e.g. setting an internal variable?
If we can come up with a proper name for a parameter we can make it a setting. One of these things that Aditya and I will to discuss when we have time and are in math mood. (There is much more in math we could control if needed, but often in the end that control is not that much needed at all.)
As an example, see this question about customized square root signed which was asked on TeX.SE a few years ago: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/406680/323 Aditya