Re: [NTG-context] support for "SUBSCRIPT THREE" etc. ?

21 Jul 2009


      Mojca Miklavec wrote:
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On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 12:27, Khaled Hosny wrote:
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Hello,
Is support for unicode range 0x2080-0x2089 planned?
Superscript works well, but not the subscript:
\starttext
x³ x₃
\stoptext
Unicode sub/superscripts aren't real sub/superscripts, and there use is
discouraged. Most fonts will align those subscript glyphs to the base
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 11:54:02AM +0200, Peter Münster wrote:
line not bellow it, and apparently LM fonts don't have them.
In MKIV one could theoretically fix the (virtual) font with subscript
three containing "\sub{3}" *** or "lowered superscript 3" :)
*** The problem is that you would probably loose "monospace" by doing
that, but maybe you are not using monospace at all.
it's also font dependent and we would en dup with fallback mess etc etc

if the font has the glyph, you can use the unicode char, bu tit is 
unlikely that there will be a mapping mechanism


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