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From: "Giuseppe Bilotta" <oblomov@freemail.it>
Cc: "ConTeXt" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: "Negative" font switches
Date: Fri, 26 Jan 2001 23:17:06 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <021801c087e5$c2b3d5c0$a3ccfea9@nuovo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3d7daug5t.fsf@coe.uga.edu>

> Giuseppe Bilotta <oblomov@freemail.it> writes:
>
> > Hello, one more request: I would like to see some font switches that act by
> > "nullifying" other switches. An example would explain better:
> >
> > {\bf Some bold {\nobf and some not bold} text}
> >
> > should be equivalent to
> >
> > {\bf Some bold} and some not bold {\bf text}
>
> Could you give a concrete example of a situation where the "\nobf"
> method is easier or clearer than the second method?
>

No. I see your point: it would always be possible to say

{\local setups {\bf Some bold} and some not bold {\bf more bold}}

Ok, maybe it's not needed after all. (Unless I can think of something in the
future ...)

Giuseppe Bilotta


  reply	other threads:[~2001-01-26 22:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-01-26 19:31 Giuseppe Bilotta
2001-01-26 22:01 ` Ed L Cashin
2001-01-26 22:17   ` Giuseppe Bilotta [this message]
2001-01-27 16:40     ` H. Ramm
2001-01-27 17:18       ` Marc van Dongen
2001-01-28 18:35         ` Hans Hagen
2001-01-28 18:34       ` Hans Hagen
2001-01-28 18:37     ` Hans Hagen

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