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stubner

Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Posts: 7

 Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 2:19 pm    Post subject: absolute values Hi everybody, it seems I ahven't used much absolute values lately since only yesterday I found that things like $|x|$ or $|o|$ look offbalance to me. The space to the right of the latter looks larger than the space to the left of the letter. In order to test this systematically, I have taken some code from testfont.tex (without fully understanding it ;-): \documentclass{article} \renewcommand{\rmdefault}{ptm} \usepackage[slantedGreek]{mtpro2} \def\math{\def\ii{i} \def\jj{j} \def\\##1{|##1|+}\mathtrial \def\\##1{##1_2+}\mathtrial \def\\##1{##1^2+}\mathtrial \def\\##1{##1/2+}\mathtrial \def\\##1{2/##1+}\mathtrial \def\\##1{##1,{}+}\mathtrial \def\\##1{d##1+}\mathtrial \let\ii=\imath \let\jj=\jmath \def\\##1{\hat##1+}\mathtrial} \newcount\skewtrial \skewtrial='177 \def\mathtrial{$\\A \\B \\C \\D \\E \\F \\G \\H \\I \\J \\K \\L \\M \\N \\O \\P \\Q \\R \\S \\T \\U \\V \\W \\X \\Y \\Z \\a \\b \\c \\d \\e \\f \\g \\h \\\ii \\\jj \\k \\l \\m \\n \\o \\p \\q \\r \\s \\t \\u \\v \\w \\x \\y \\z \\\alpha \\\beta \\\gamma \\\delta \\\epsilon \\\zeta \\\eta \\\theta \\\iota \\\kappa \\\lambda \\\mu \\\nu \\\xi \\\pi \\\rho \\\sigma \\\tau \\\upsilon \\\phi \\\chi \\\psi \\\omega \\\vartheta \\\varpi \\\varphi \\\Gamma \\\Delta \\\Theta \\\Lambda \\\Xi \\\Pi \\\Sigma \\\Upsilon \\\Phi \\\Psi \\\Omega \\\partial \\\ell \\\wp$\par} \def\mathsy{\begingroup\skewtrial='060 % for math symbol font tests \def\mathtrial{$\\A \\B \\C \\D \\E \\F \\G \\H \\I \\J \\K \\L \\M \\N \\O \\P \\Q \\R \\S \\T \\U \\V \\W \\X \\Y \\Z$\par} \math\endgroup} \begin{document} \math \end{document} IMO most lower case letters look off-center to me with to much space to the tight of the letter (f,v,w,e are exceptions). The greeks are fine, while the uppercase letters are mixed (R has to much space to the left, U and M on the right). The other tests (besides absolute values) look fine. Other opinions? cheerio ralf
jautschbach

Joined: 17 Mar 2006
Posts: 11

Posted: Wed Apr 19, 2006 3:52 pm    Post subject: Re: absolute values

 stubner wrote: Hi everybody, it seems I ahven't used much absolute values lately since only yesterday I found that things like $|x|$ or $|o|$ look offbalance to me. The space to the right of the latter looks larger than the space to the left of the letter. ralf

|i| and |\pi|, for example, seem to have too much space on the right. |\eta| looks like there is not enough space on the right.

Jochen
Michael Spivak

Joined: 10 Oct 2005
Posts: 52