* From: Michal Jaegermann <michal harddata com> * To: For testers of Fedora Core development releases <fedora-test-list redhat com> * Subject: Re: DejaVu fonts for Fedora Core 6 feedback call * Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 12:21:12 -0600 On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 11:05:24AM -0700, Paul Dickson wrote: > > I don't like how - does not match the width of +. It's almost like a > dot. That is indeed not too well done. Try to display '-+-+-+-+-+' using these fonts and other troubles will become apparent.
That's because "-" (U+002D) is the glyph "HYPHEN-MINUS", which means that the glyph is used for hyphen too. For the minus sign you should use "−" (U+2212), which has the desirable length. From http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr25/tr25-7.html : [quote] Minus sign. U+2212 minus sign is the preferred representation of the unary and binary minus sign rather than the ASCII-derived U+002D hyphen-minus, because U+2212 is unambiguous and because it is rendered with a more desirable length, usually longer than a hyphen. [/quote] This has been discussed before. Making "-" the same size as "+" would make the "-" much less usable as hyphen.
Forgot the link to the previous discussion: it's at http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=15503641
The regular hyphen-minus will stay as it is. We could consider setting a stylistic alternative so it is a minus instead of the current hyphen, but that's not currently useful/useable. Please use the minus characters instead. Closing the bug as WONTFIX
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