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, 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.
Then perhaps with the most common fonts at least (there could be a package that provides hardcoded values for known fonts). -- 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
