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 Palatino and whatever? Could be true... This has nothing > to do with T1, however. > > The tilde in Computer Modern OT1 is also raised, it's just that > especially for that font in that encoding url.sty uses a faked tilde.
I meant that Donald has fixed the problem for OT1. So, the problem concerns T1 fonts. > 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 (and perhaps the license would even forbid > this without renaming the font). Then perhaps TeX/LaTeX should have a macro that provides a tilde at the right height. > So in fact, either you create a new url.sty (under a new name unless > Donald Arsenau agrees) or a new font... The first is easier, of > course. However with the first solution, the problem is fixed only in url.sty (in case one wants to fix \textasciitilde), and with a new name, there may be clashes with classes/packages that include url.sty. After a discussion with Josselin Noirel, I currently use the virtual font solution: http://www.vinc17.org/latex/ A Josselin's page, in French: http://www.eleves.ens.fr/home/noirel/latex/astuces/astuces1.html#ast12 (he has chosen to modify Latin Modern). Now, the problem is that these solutions are not standard, i.e. distributing a single .tex file is not sufficient. -- 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
