[XeTeX] Problems with spacing in math formulae

Will Robertson wspr81 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 20 11:01:13 CEST 2010


On 2010-10-20 19:09:52 +1030, Taco Hoekwater 
<taco at elvenkind.com> said:

> On 10/20/2010 10:35 AM, Khaled Hosny wrote:
>> 
>> Very useful! Knowing that there were a working version I was able to
>> track this down (with some git bisect magic), the culprit is the
>> DisplayOperatorMinHeight math parameter, while ago I increased it from
>> 1400 to 2180 and XeTeX seems not to like that. Now I need to remember
>> why this was done in the first place (never use terse commit messages,
>> one day you will regret it).
> 
> That was because otherwise the display style operator size in luatex
> was too small (essentially outputting a text style operator in all
> cases).

Is it possible to set a happy medium here or is there an inconsistency 
(or bug) in XeTeX in how this value is being used? If necessary, 
unicode-math can manually override whichever fontdimen setting this is 
in XeTeX...

W




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