<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div><br></div><div><span>Of course one % slipped in but this is my source....</span></div><div><span><div><br></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span>%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</span></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\documentclass{minimal}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 12pt;">\usepackage[T1,altbullet,expert,nofontinfo,lucidascale]{lucidabr}</span><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\begin{document}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color:
transparent;">$+\hspace{-4pt}\rightarrow\hspace{-4pt}-$</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">\end{document}</div><div style="background-color: transparent;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="background-color: transparent;">%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%</div><div><br></div></span></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <br> <br> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font size="2" face="Arial"> Il Mercoledì 19 Febbraio 2014 10:43, Tobias Columbus <tobias.columbus@gmail.com> ha scritto:<br> </font> </div> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv8702602439"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div><div><div><div>Hi,<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Mhh. Strange. Just to convince you that I have
not gone nuts, I have produced tiny samples with lualatex, xelatex and context.<br clear="none"></div><div>Please forgive me the "big" attachments.<br clear="none">
<br clear="none"></div>I used following TeX versions:<br clear="none"></div>LuaTeX, Version beta-0.76.0-2013061708 (TeX Live 2013) (rev 4627)<br clear="none"></div>XeTeX 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3-2013060708 (TeX Live 2013)<br clear="none"></div>ConTeXt 2014.02.14 17:07<br clear="none"><br clear="none">
</div>Tobias<br clear="none"><div><div><br clear="none"></div></div></div><div class="yiv8702602439yqt8237425451" id="yiv8702602439yqt33224"><div class="yiv8702602439gmail_extra"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div class="yiv8702602439gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 19, 2014 at 8:55 AM, Mau V <span dir="ltr"><<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:mvs1952@yahoo.it" target="_blank" href="mailto:mvs1952@yahoo.it">mvs1952@yahoo.it</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none">
<blockquote class="yiv8702602439gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><div><span>Hi!</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>I just checked with the Type 1 version of Lucida. I see a \rightarrow precisely aligned with + and - signs (I typed $+-\rightarrow$. </span></div>
<div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span>In the preamble I used:</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="background-color:transparent;">
<span>\usepackage[T1,altbullet,expert,nofontinfo,lucidascale]{lucidabr}<br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><br clear="none">
</div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Thus the problem apparently is not present in Type1.</span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;">
<span><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="font-style: normal; font-size: 15.555556297302246px; background-color: transparent; font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;"><span>Maurizio</span></div><div style="display:block;"> <br clear="none"> <br clear="none"> <div style="font-family: verdana, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">
<div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> Il Mercoledì 19 Febbraio 2014 2:56, Tobias Columbus <<a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:tobias.columbus@gmail.com" target="_blank" href="mailto:tobias.columbus@gmail.com">tobias.columbus@gmail.com</a>> ha scritto:<br clear="none">
</font> </div> <div><div><div class="yiv8702602439h5"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hi,<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>I recently noticed that the horizontal bar in $\rightarrow$ in Lucida Bright Math OT is slightly below the math axis, i.e. the line on which the minus sign or the horizontal bar of a '+' reside. <br clear="none">
I cannot check with the Type1 fonts but I suspect that it is just the same there.<br clear="none">However, this is not the case with some other math fonts like e.g. Palatino or Latin Modern.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">Is this on purpose or is it a "bug"? If it is on purpose, is there any method in (Lua)TeX to get the height of this "arrowline-axis"?<br clear="none">
<br clear="none">I am asking just because it breaks some hacks that rely on the assumption that arrows have their lines on the axis.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div><div>Thank you,<br clear="none"></div><div>Tobias<br clear="none"></div></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div>--<br clear="none"><a rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank" href="http://tug.org/lucida/">http://tug.org/lucida/</a><br clear="none">
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