[XeTeX] Re: Re: Re: Fontspec feature request?

[Adam Lindsay]

Suki Venkat, [TnQ] said this at Tue, 25 Oct 2005 21:10:53 +0530:

>I myself can't make out why the LaTeX one is better (I will happy if
>somebody could explain that). 

It's a font design issue. The TeX-based braces have a modulated stroke
(it goes thin and thick in different places). Scaling in one direction
will distort the thick-thin relationships, scaling uniformly will effect
the color (apparent blackness on the page). Your scaled fences started
life as a monoline, but some vertical distortion is now apparent. 

Knuth really did know what he was doing when he designed TeX/Computer Modern.

But I'm sure you know all that, as a typesetting professional.

adam
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