On Wed, Jan 25, 2023 at 11:02 AM Otared Kavian via ntg-context
Hi,
Thanks Hraban for the information and the link to the article by Hans and Mikael about the math fonts in Lucida.
I very much appreciated that article: one sees how the handling of almost impercebtile details in ConTeXt make us to adhere to and love LuaMetaTeX… So a great thank you to Hans and Mikael for all this work!
Regarding the details of vertical alignment in math, I wonder whether the column « : » in front of the equal sign « = », in the combination « := » (used to define for instance a new variable) should be alos centered around the math axis, as explained in the article. For instance in the following example
\setupbodyfont[lucidaot,12pt] \starttext \startformula f(x) := -(u|x) := - \langle u, x \rangle \stopformula \stopformula \startformula f : A \longrightarrow B \stopformula \stoptext
it seems to me that the lower dot (or square…) in the semicolumn of the first formula (in front of the equal sign) is lower than in the second formula.
Best regards: Otared
Thank you for the kind words, Otared, Regarding the colons (and other symbols with "dots"), I would say it is still not optimal in Lucida (and difficult to make it "consistent", there are too many symbols that are at the moment different). But in your example you can use \colonequals and \colon if you prefer. They are centered around the math axis. Best, Mikael \setupbodyfont[lucidaot,12pt] \starttext \startformula f(x) := -(u|x) \colonequals - \langle u, x \rangle \stopformula \startformula f : A \longrightarrow B \breakhere f \colon A \longrightarrow B \stopformula \startformula \mathaxisbelow := \colonequals : \colon \stopformula \stoptext