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Re: large bigops
- To: math-font-discuss@cogs.susx.ac.uk
- Subject: Re: large bigops
- From: alanje@cogs.susx.ac.uk (Alan Jeffrey)
- Date: Tue, 17 Aug 93 14:06 BST
>I would guess that the height values used were
>an expedient forced by the Metafont limit of 15 heights and depths per
>.tfm file.
Hmm... I don't think so. There's only 13 distinct depths in cmex10,
so DEK could have used another one for the big operators such as
<bigcup>.
>This hypothesis seems to be supported by the use of the
>padded operator in bigop.mf for the displaystyle versions.
I think the padding must be in there for some other reason. Perhaps
DEK wanted scripts to be placed slightly further away on the bigops...
It does look pretty deliberate though...
Alan.