Re: [NTG-context] Superscript text size

22 Jan 2008

      On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, morgan.brassel@free.fr wrote:
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Selon Aditya Mahajan :
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On Mon, 21 Jan 2008, morgan.brassel@free.fr wrote:
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Hi,
The superscript in expressions like $R^N$ seems to be typeset with a bigger
font
size in ConTeXt than in LaTeX. Is it the wanted behaviour? From the
typographic
point of view, which is the best of the two renderings?
Thanks for your advice,
That should not happen. I cannot see the different from my eyes. Here is
my example. In both cases, bodyfont is 10pt, and scriptsize is 7pt. Do you
see the differece?
ConTeXT:
\setupbodyfont[10pt]
\starttext $R^N$ \stoptext
LaTeX:
\documentclass{minimal}
\usepackage{lmodern}
\begin{document}
   $R^N$
\end{document}
As far as my eyes can see, the results are the same with 10pt and 11pt as
document text size, but not with 12pt. Your two examples in 12pt look different
to me. Am I wrong?
In the latex example, you need to change the document class to article, if 
you want 12pt fonts. To my eye, there is no difference between the two. 
But pdffonts tells me that latex is using LM Math Italic 8pt while ConTeXt 
is using LM Math Italic 9pt. This is not conclusive evidence since the 
fonts could be scaled.

In any case, if you want to change ConTeXt's defaults for 12pt, you can 
redefine the following

\unprotect
\definebodyfontenvironment
   [\!!twelvepoint]
   [        \s!text=\!!twelvepoint,
          \s!script=\!!ninepoint,
    \s!scriptscript=\!!sevenpoint,
               \c!x=\!!tenpoint,
              \c!xx=\!!eightpoint,
             \c!big=\!!fourteenpointfour,
           \c!small=\!!tenpoint]
\protect

This is just copied from font-ini.tex. You can use 12pt, 11pt etc rather 
than the predefined macros if you want.

Aditya