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XITS - OpenType implementation of STIX fonts with math support
SIL Open Font License 1.1
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Horizontal bar is exteremely wide #87

Closed KrasnayaPloshchad closed 5 years ago

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 5 years ago

The horizontal bar in XITS is sightly wider than many other fonts, to my suggestion, the glyph should be replaced by a new glyph based on em dash, and the previous glyph should be reencoded in U+2E3A.

dbenjaminmiller commented 5 years ago

This is an aspect of the STIX design, so, in line with the principle of backwards compatibility, shouldn't be changed in XITS unless it were found to be a true misencoding.

khaledhosny commented 5 years ago

What is horizontal bar and why it matters if it is wider than other fonts. As @dbenjaminmiller already mentioned, we no longer do any changes that would cause text reflow unless it is a clear bug.

KrasnayaPloshchad commented 5 years ago

Horizontal bar (aka quotation dash) is used to introduce quoted text, it’s non breakable in some software environments. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark What makes me weird is the horizontal bar looks 2x wider than em dash, which I have never seen before I used XITS, and STIX Two seems fixed that, so I thought it’s a wrong design and the glyph has wrong encode.

khaledhosny commented 5 years ago

You still didn’t tell me which character (Unicode code point) you are talking about. Anyway, metrics are not going to change any more.