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Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN)
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN) |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:50:04 +0000 (UTC) |
>> Consistent with what exactly?
>
> to have ° and @textdegree{} give the same output with Texinfo TeX.
OK.
>> Does this map back to U+00B0 for cut and paste?
>
> No. But neither does the current output, which uses ringaccent and
> therefore maps to the corresponding character 'COMBINING RING ABOVE'
> (U+030A).
OK, right.
> You probably disagree with many renderings of similar characters,
> then as the rendering is based on math mode, and in many case does
> not lead to fixed width characters (for U+00AE, U+00B1, U+00B2,
> U+00B3...).
Well, contrary to the Unicode cmap values I think *this* could be
improved. Or do you see any technical reason that prevents putting
these math characters into boxes with a fixed width? It slightly
complicates the definitions, but it is probably worth the effort.
Werner
- better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/11
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Gavin Smith, 2022/11/11
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/12
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Gavin Smith, 2022/11/12
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/12
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Gavin Smith, 2022/11/12
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/12
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Gavin Smith, 2022/11/12
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/13
- Re: better glyph for U+00B0 (DEGREE SIGN), Werner LEMBERG, 2022/11/13