Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:15 +0100, Frank K�ster wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
>
> > Then perhaps TeX/LaTeX should have a macro that provides a tilde at the
> > right height.
>
> The point is that "the right height" is a design decision, there is no
> such thing as a technical correct tilde heigth independent of the font.
ACK
> > 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).
>
> You should really contact the Latin Modern developers.
ACK
> > Now, the problem is that these solutions are not standard, i.e.
> > distributing a single .tex file is not sufficient.
>
> Since the CM fonts won't be changed, any workaround will be
> nonstandard.
And it is quite likely that the Latin modern fonts will become the
default fonts in LaTeX (they allready are in ConTeXt). So /now/ is the
time for you to contact the Latin Modern developers and convince them
that \textasciitilde should be lowered.
The only other way to get a 'standard' solution would be to upload
appropriate (virtual) font metrics to CTAN and hope that TeX
distributions will include them.
cheerio
ralf
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