X-VM-v5-Data: ([nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil nil] ["988" "Tue" "5" "March" "1996" "19:59:11" "+0100" "Chris Rowley" "C.A.ROWLEY@OPEN.AC.UK" nil "30" "Re: Additional font dimensions for text fonts" "^Date:" nil nil "3" nil nil nil nil] nil) Received: from listserv.gmd.de (listserv.gmd.de [192.88.97.1]) by trudi.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (8.6.12/8.6.12) with ESMTP id KAA24426; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:43:29 +0100 Received: from listserv.gmd.de by listserv.gmd.de (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id <14.2EC107EE@listserv.gmd.de>; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:44:26 +0100 Received: from URZINFO.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE by URZINFO.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8b) with spool id 41909 for LATEX-L@URZINFO.URZ.UNI-HEIDELBERG.DE; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:43:42 +0100 Received: from ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de (ixgate01.dfnrelay.d400.de [193.174.248.1]) by relay.urz.uni-heidelberg.de (8.7.4/8.7.4) with ESMTP id KAA18995 for ; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:43:35 +0100 (MET) X400-Received: by mta d400relay in /PRMD=dfnrelay/ADMD=d400/C=de/; Relayed; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:18:51 +0100 X400-Received: by mta sun2.mhs-relay.ac.uk in /PRMD=uk.ac/ADMD= /C=gb/; Relayed; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:18:29 +0100 X400-Received: by mta venus.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:17:22 +0100 X400-Received: by mta fell.open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Mon, 11 Mar 1996 10:16:32 +0100 X400-Received: by mta open.ac.uk in /PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/; Relayed; Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:59:11 +0100 X400-Originator: C.A.ROWLEY@open.ac.uk X400-Recipients: non-disclosure:; X400-MTS-Identifier: [/PRMD=UK.AC/ADMD= /C=GB/;<9603051859.AA03370@fell.open.ac] X400-Content-Type: P2-1988 (22) Content-Identifier: Re: Additiona.. Alternate-Recipient: Allowed Discarded-X400-IPMS-Extensions: ccitt (0) data (9) pss (2342) (-2004000980) (200) (1) Message-ID: <9603051859.AA03370@fell.open.ac.uk> Reply-To: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project In-Reply-To: <825606572.255645.MJD@MATH.AMS.ORG> Date: Tue, 5 Mar 1996 19:59:11 +0100 From: Chris Rowley Sender: Mailing list for the LaTeX3 project To: Multiple recipients of list LATEX-L Subject: Re: Additional font dimensions for text fonts Status: R X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 1729 Michael Downes wrote -- > I haven't needed digitwidth yet, I only included it when setting up this > group of fontdimens because I saw it in ISO/IEC 9541-1:1991(E) (font > standard) and thought it might turn out to be useful some day for > special table applications. > > %% digitwidth > % Maximum width of all digit characters 0--9. Commonly all the > % widths are the same = .5em, in order to give nice alignment in > % tables. > % > \def\digitwidth{\fontdimen13 } > If the digits do have different widths then this may be a useful and necessary piece of information??? When they are monowidth then it is a dimension that is used a lot in our production system; but then it can be found as the width of \hbox{0}, so it is not essential to store it separately in these fonts. Another one we use a lot is the (common) width of +, - and =. Oh, btw, TeX trivia of the week: in cmsy, + and - share a common height and depth, but = is different---isnt life wonderful?? chris