On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 08:11:53AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > Khaled Hosny wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:35:28AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > >>Khaled Hosny wrote: > >>See the last comment on http://tracker.luatex.org/view.php?id=286 > > > >From the ticket: > >"The result is now still too wide, but that is truly cambria's fault: the > >integrals have large italic corrections while in fact they fit in their > >bounding boxes." > > > >This isn't Cambria's fault per se, as any font that is to be used with > >MS Office as well is going Cambria's route (so does Asana Math and my > >two math fonts.) > > >So, IMHO this should be the default behaviour for new math fonts, and > >old TeX fonts pretending to be new math fonts should compensate for > >this, not the other way around. > > I am not quite convinced yet. The MATH spec seems to disagree with both > the font metrics and the actual behavior of Word. What would happen > is Word 2010 (say) fixes that?
Until office2010 is released, office2007 is the standard implementation (well, windows 7 does math typesetting system wide, and the bundled Cambria exhibits the same behaviour, so I doubt there will be a change anytime soon.) I'll try to talk to Murray Sargent of MS, may be we can get more clarifications. Regards, Khaled -- Khaled Hosny Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team Free font developer
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