Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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).
Feel free to provide such a package, and upload it to CTAN. I don't see the need for this, personally. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)
