Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2010-01-23 Thread Hilmar Preusse
reassign 351917 lmodern stop On 08.02.06 Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.org) wrote: Hi, > \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt, making URLs look strange with > the url package when using T1 encoding. The tilde should be > lowered for consistency with other fonts. > > (I originally reported the

Bug#351917: [SPAM?]: Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-15 17:04:57 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 >>

Bug#351917: [SPAM?]: Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-15 17:04:57 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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,

Bug#351917: [SPAM?]: Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2006-02-15 11:15:34 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 decis

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-15 11:15:34 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 correc

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-15 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 11:15 +0100, Frank K�ster wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 techni

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-15 11:48:59 +0100, Ralf Stubner wrote: > And it is quite likely that the Latin modern fonts will become the > default fonts in LaTeX (they allready are in ConTeXt). So /now/ is the > time for you to contact the Latin Modern developers and convince them > that \textasciitilde should be lo

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-15 Thread Frank Küster
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't think this is an issue where Unicode (or any other standard) can >> help decide. Instead, it's a question of font design. And as to your >> question, changing the font itself is a very bad idea, because people >> rely on it being constant (an

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-13 18:40:04 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that Donald was speaking of the other T1 fonts (the patch > > I was proposing didn't touch OT1). > > Ah, you mean that he was expecting he should also provide a faked tilde > for Times and Pa

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-13 Thread Ralf Stubner
On Mon, Feb 13, 2006 at 18:12 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Another question is that: what should be changed? url.sty? or the > font itself, i.e. a lowered tilde (for a better consistency with > what Unicode gives as an example[*] -- and better look)? > > [*] http://www.unicode.org/fr/charts/PDF

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hm, well, someone should probably tell Donald that the LaTeX team >> recommends not to use OT1 at all, but T1 in general (unless a specific >> other encoding is needed, of course). So if he only redesigns one font, >> it should be the EC versions of C

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-02-13 17:19:43 +0100, Frank Küster wrote: > Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Package: tetex-extra > > Version: 3.0-13 > > Severity: normal > > > > \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt, making URLs look strange with > > the url package when using T1 encoding. The tilde should be

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-13 Thread Frank Küster
Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Package: tetex-extra > Version: 3.0-13 > Severity: normal > > \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt, making URLs look strange with > the url package when using T1 encoding. The tilde should be lowered > for consistency with other fonts. That's a matter o

Bug#351917: tetex-extra: \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt

2006-02-08 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: tetex-extra Version: 3.0-13 Severity: normal \textasciitilde is too high in cmtt, making URLs look strange with the url package when using T1 encoding. The tilde should be lowered for consistency with other fonts. (I originally reported the problem to Donald Arseneau, suggesting to lower