[XeTeX] Underline thickness and position for Type1

[John Was]

It is also quite common now for underline to be used for emphasis in Greek where the Greek typeface being employed is already sloping (notably the Porson Greek used for many decades by OUP for its editions of classical authors), and therefore there is no 'italic' available.  (But traditionally underline is frowned on for aesthetic reasons and at OUP we used to letter-space Porson Greek for emphasis, in imitation of the traditional 'gesperrt' German convention [traditional German typography tended to avoid italic altogether].)

But where underlining is needed, both 'plain' TeX and LaTeX users have the excellent SOUL package available, where the thickness of the underline rule is customizable (and if desired variable in accordance with the point-size since it can be expressed as a percentage of an em).  I think that is more likely to produce the most satisfactory results in any given case.


John

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Dave Walden 
  To: Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms 
  Sent: Saturday, May 16, 2009 4:24 PM
  Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Underline thickness and position for Type1


  On Sat, May 16, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Pander <pander at users.sourceforge.net> wrote:

    I think several real world applications of underline exist 

  Here are a couple:  I am using underlines in a book I'm reproducing with LaTeX where the book was originally typed on a typewriting using underlines instead of italics, and I am trying to make the reproduced book look like the original did (I'm also using a [proportional] typewritter font to mimic the typewriter look).   I have also used underlines for italics where I was reproducing a blackboard example in a book, and an underline was used on the blackboard.


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