Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt
On 2006-02-13 18:40:04 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> > I think that Donald was speaking of the other T1 fonts (the patch
> > I was proposing didn't touch OT1).
>
> Ah, you mean that he was expecting he should also provide a faked tilde
> for Times and Palatino and whatever? Could be true... This has nothing
> to do with T1, however.
>
> The tilde in Computer Modern OT1 is also raised, it's just that
> especially for that font in that encoding url.sty uses a faked tilde.
I meant that Donald has fixed the problem for OT1. So, the problem
concerns T1 fonts.
> I don't think this is an issue where Unicode (or any other standard) can
> help decide. Instead, it's a question of font design. And as to your
> question, changing the font itself is a very bad idea, because people
> rely on it being constant (and perhaps the license would even forbid
> this without renaming the font).
Then perhaps TeX/LaTeX should have a macro that provides a tilde at the
right height.
> So in fact, either you create a new url.sty (under a new name unless
> Donald Arsenau agrees) or a new font... The first is easier, of
> course.
However with the first solution, the problem is fixed only in url.sty
(in case one wants to fix \textasciitilde), and with a new name, there
may be clashes with classes/packages that include url.sty.
After a discussion with Josselin Noirel, I currently use the virtual
font solution: http://www.vinc17.org/latex/
A Josselin's page, in French:
http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/noirel/latex/astuces/astuces1.html#ast12
(he has chosen to modify Latin Modern).
Now, the problem is that these solutions are not standard, i.e.
distributing a single .tex file is not sufficient.
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