Bug#421577: texlive-metapost: latexMP gets bounding box wrong
Dylan Thurston wrote:
> Package: texlive-metapost
> Version: 2007-5
> Severity: normal
>
> latexMP will in some cases get the bounding box wrong, particularly
> when there is a minus sign. In the example below, the two labels come
> out with different bounding boxes: the second one goes about .9pt
> below the baseline, for some strange reason. (Possibly this is a
> problem with the font rather than latexMP.)
Do you get the same bounding box for $+1$ as for $-1$? If yes, then this
is indeed a font issue. For TeX '-' and '+' have the same height and
depth. This is important so that $\sqrt{x+y}$ and $\sqrt{x-y}$ are
rendered with identical square-root signs. As a work around, you could try
something like $\smash{-}1$ (sorry not tested).
cheerio
ralf
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