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 lowered > > for consistency with other fonts. > > That's a matter of taste. To me, the raised tilde looks much more > natural, and anyway the math simile used in url.sty looks much too thin > to me, whereas the tilde is considerably stronger.
I preferred the tilde from cmtt, but lowered. For instance, adding [EMAIL PROTECTED] to [EMAIL PROTECTED] was OK for me. But Donald didn't want it. > > (I originally reported the problem to Donald Arseneau, suggesting > > to lower the tilde as he did for OT1, but he didn't want to "have > > url.sty redesigning every font that it comes across".) > > 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 Computer Modern. I think that Donald was speaking of the other T1 fonts (the patch I was proposing didn't touch OT1). 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/U0000.pdf -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA
