a concocted symbol

Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) P.Taylor at Hellenic-Institute.Uk
Sat Oct 30 19:35:45 CEST 2021


On 30/10/2021 18:07, Philip Taylor (Hellenic Institute) wrote:
>
> As you have not specified the font in which this sequence is to occur, 
> your two \kerns, expressed in ems, are unlikely to reliably work as 
> intended.  Apart from a well-intentioned desire for portability, is 
> there any reason why your definition cannot also include font family, 
> size, variant, etc ?
> -- 
> /Philip Taylor/
>
If you want to retain font independence, you could perhaps measure the 
dimensions of your \footnotesize {N}, \bigcirc and \longrightarrow and 
then calculate your \kerns accordingly, \raise-ing if required..
-- 
/Philip Taylor/

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