On 06.09.2015 17:27, Rik wrote:
It seems that \buildtextaccent\textacute q (or \buildtextaccent´q) moves
the q to the right within the character’s bounding box. The following
example (and attached resulting pdf) demonstrates this. Lines 1 and 2
show the string with and without the \buildtextaccent, and lines 4 and 6
repeat that in italic. The strings are the same width, but the q is
moved right. Lines 3 and 6 show a manual kerning of the q to improve
appearance.
\buildtextaccent has to take some heuristics about horizontal and
vertical placement and is sometimes wrong about it. Since your case is
somewhat special, I would define a macro for the que symbol and adjust
the boxes manually - but then, you'll have to adapt it to italic and
upright (and bold) and different font sizes. Depends on how important
typographical beauty is to you - either a medium-quality solution for
all cases or better quality and manual fiddling... Something like
\definefontfamily [test] [serif] [ebgaramond]
\setupbodyfont [test,12pt]
\define\que%
{\bgroup
\setbox0\hbox{q}%
\setbox2\hbox to \wd0{\kern0.3em\switchtobodyfont[6pt] ʒ}%
\setbox4\hbox to \wd0{\kern0.1em\textacute}%
\hbox to \wd0 \bgroup
\hss\copy0\hss
\hskip-\wd0
\raise-0.45ex\copy2
\hskip-\wd0
\raise0.1ex\copy4
\egroup
\egroup\autoinsertnextspace}
\starttext
{\it Dicit\que mihi}
\stoptext
(btw, the example you sent uses Latin Modern).
Thomas
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