Timeline for Suggestions and feature requests for the design of a font for math articles/books
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| Feb 12 at 21:43 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | @TimothyChow: Fair point, and I don't know if this is really a font issue vs. a TeX issue. But yes to me none of those look quite as bad as $\chi_G$ does. | |
| Feb 12 at 20:36 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | Is the subscript issue really a problem with $\chi$ specifically? Do you also want to similarly "correct" $g_G$, $p_G$, $q_G$, $y_G$? If so, then that seems to be something you'd want to fix in $\rm\TeX$ rather than in the font. | |
| Feb 12 at 19:18 | comment | added | Sam Hopkins | Possibly a solution is just to make \Alpha produce A, \Beta B and so on. I guess this is easy to do with a LaTeX macro, and not necessarily something related to fonts. In that case, the issue with $\chi$ extending too far below the line is maybe orthogonal. I guess extending this request, it would be nice to make sure most symbols have a consistent placement, even if this goes against the way they are normally handwritten, because in math subscripts and superscripts are used so often and so having the relative vertical placement of symbols be consistent is important. | |
| Feb 12 at 18:57 | comment | added | Emily | On the bigger versions of the other Greek letters, could you give me some examples of situations where you wanted to use them, or found having them at hand would benefit the exposition? | |
| Feb 12 at 18:57 | comment | added | Emily | Thanks for the suggestion! I think the problem with $\chi$ is that it is supposed to descend to the same level as $f$, but since it doesn't also ascend to the same level as $f$, subscripts end up appearing weird, e.g. $\chi_G$ vs. $f_G$. Maybe a solution could be having the subscripts for $\chi$ placed lower to account for this, or have $\chi$ not descend as much. I'll experiment with this to figure out the relative advantages of each approach when implementing it. | |
| S Feb 12 at 16:32 | history | answered | Sam Hopkins | CC BY-SA 4.0 | |
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