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Subject: how to: switch to another font
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Hello Hans, hello all,

I have defined a font that shall only be used for some words (think of it 
as a logo font).
  \definefontsynonym[Batmos-Regular] [...]
Now I want to write "Hello this is {\switchFont{Batmos-Regular}cool stuff} 
and ..." without defining an extra font with \definefont.  Is this 
possible, or do I have to explicitly define all fonts that I wann use in 
the document.

Now I have:
  \def\setBatmosFont%
    {\definefont[batmosFont][Batmos-Regular sa
    \multiply\currentfontscale by 1.4]\batmosFont}
that switches to this particular font and honours the current fontsize.  
Since the font has a smaller x-height, I have to scale it.

If there is no easy way to say: "Switch to this font and honour the current 
size" -- is my solution well defined?

Uwe

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