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authorHans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>2017-02-19 17:46:26 +0100
committerContext Git Mirror Bot <phg42.2a@gmail.com>2017-02-19 17:46:26 +0100
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@@ -373,6 +373,25 @@ an integral are moved right and left half of the italic correction.
\stopsection
+\startsection[title=Bad fonts]
+
+There might be fonts out there where the italic correction is supposed to be
+added to the width of a glyph. In that case the following trick can be tried:
+
+\starttyping
+\definefontfeature[mathextra][italicwidths=yes] % fix latin modern
+\stoptyping
+
+in which case the following might look better:
+
+\starttyping
+$\left|V\right| = \left|W\right|$
+\stoptyping
+
+Of course better is to fix the font.
+
+\stopsection
+
\stopchapter
\stopcomponent