[lucida] Arrows in Lucida OpenType

Tobias Columbus tobias.columbus at gmail.com
Wed Feb 26 11:25:41 CET 2014


Hi,

Thanks for the inspection of Type1 fonts. A question for the wizards: Is
the shifted math axis a bug or intention?

Tobias


On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 12:15 AM, James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com> wrote:

> >>>>> "TC" == Tobias Columbus <tobias.columbus at gmail.com> writes:
>
> TC> I have no idea in which units fontforge displays the distance but
> TC> the lower line of "arrowright" lies at height 268 and the lower
> TC> line of "minus" lies at height 298.
>
> The type1 version of LucidaNewMath-Symbol has those at 265.
> (I used t1disasm to take a look at the hstem calls.)
>
> So this is a significant change from the Type1 fonts, and it looks like
> plus and minus were moved up, not that the arrows were moved down.
>
> (Unless of course the baseline was lowered.....)
>
> (I also only bought the type1 set.)
>
> -JimC
> --
> James Cloos <cloos at jhcloos.com>         OpenPGP: 1024D/ED7DAEA6
>
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