[Fontinst] ugly asterisk in typewriter fonts

[Walter Schmidt]

On Mon, 24 Feb 2003 23:14:51 +0100, Lars Hellström wrote:

>A \centeredglyph{<name>}{<axispos>} is simply a matter of
>
>\setcommand\centeredglyph#1#2{
>   \moveup{\sub{#2}{\div{\sub{\height{#1}}{\depth{#1}}}{2}}}
>   \glyph{#1}{1000}
>   \moveup{\sub{\div{\sub{\height{#1}}{\depth{#1}}}{2}}{#2}}
>}

I'm sorry, I do not quite understand how this is supposed
to be used.  You mean, computing vaxis just like I did, and 
then:

 \resetglyph{asterisk}
   \centeredglyph{asterisk}{vaxis}
 \endresetglyph

???

Further suggestions for the next fontinst release:

(1) change latin.mtx so that the asterisk is forced to be 
vertically centered in typewriter fonts 

(2) fix texcomp.mtx so that asteriskcentered gets actually
centered; as I said, the present code does not work

-- 
Walter