[XeTeX] Problems with thickness of \frac rule and width of accents (\hat) with XeLaTeX

Khaled Hosny khaledhosny at eglug.org
Sun Sep 19 04:46:32 CEST 2010


On Sat, Sep 18, 2010 at 07:20:53PM -0700, S. Ekin Kocabas wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am having issues—which I thought were related to this thread—with math accent
> usage under XeLaTeX & unicode-math with XITS. When I use a \tilde on a
> character that has sub/superscripts, the tilde gets very wide, and even crashes
> with the superscript. Is there something that I'm missing, or need to update?
> The attached pdfs show the output I get under XeLaTeX and pdfLaTeX.

That is a known bug with no fix (AFAIK), LuaTeX is fine, though.

> As a side note, the prime symbol of XITS seems a little too thin compared to
> the computer modern one. Is there a way to make it thicker? When typesetting
> double column documents in 10pts, the prime becomes quite hard to see.

You are getting the regular prime (which is designed in script size) scripted,
instead of the special script prime (which is big like in CMR), looks
like a unicode-math (new?) bug.

Regards,
 Khaled

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 Khaled Hosny
 Arabic localiser and member of Arabeyes.org team
 Free font developer


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