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 decision, there is no >> such thing as a technical correct tilde heigth independent of the font. > > 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, more than the x-height in an other, and less than the x-height in yet an other font, and therefore would look different in all the three. On the other hand, there's no way to access the value of x-height in a font. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
