Bug#351917: [SPAM?]: Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2006-02-15 11:15:34 +0100, Frank Küster 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.
>
> I meant: a macro that provides a tilde at the same height for any font.
That's quite impossible, because the same height (in points above the
baseline) will be exactly the x-height in one font, more than the
x-height in an other, and less than the x-height in yet an other font,
and therefore would look different in all the three. On the other hand,
there's no way to access the value of x-height in a font.
Regards, Frank
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Frank Küster
Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer (teTeX)
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