Bug#351917: [SPAM?]: Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt
Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
> On 2006-02-15 17:04:57 +0100, Frank Küster wrote:
>> Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org> wrote:
>> > 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.
>
> Then perhaps with the most common fonts at least (there could be
> a package that provides hardcoded values for known fonts).
Feel free to provide such a package, and upload it to CTAN. I don't see
the need for this, personally.
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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