2007/3/7, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
>
> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:
>
> > En/na Aditya Mahajan ha escrit:
> >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:
> >>
> >>> Is it possible to have the equivalent in \sf in context?. I tried \sf
> >>> and I get an error. Strange because \sl, \bf, etc exist
> >>
> >> \ss? (I am not sure what \sf is supposed to be, so just guessing)
> >>
> >
> > \sf is Sans Serif (latex)
> > [\rm roman, \tt typewriter, \sl slanted, \emph empasized, \it italic \bf
> > boldface; see "a not so short intro to latex" for example]
>
> \ss is plain tex's font command for sans serif, and works with
> context. I do not know why latex chose \sf (sffamily, textsf) instead
> of ss.


You are wrong, \ss is in plain TeX the command to produce the german ß.
There has never been a predefined command to swith to a sans serif font like
the corresponding switches for bold and italic.


> >>
> >>> And another question: how to make very big fonts (for example: 60pt)
> in
> >>> text and mathematical mode? I just want to change the font temporally
> >>> (and don't touch \setupbodyfont)
> >>
> >> \switchtobodyfont inside a group will change the font temporarily. For
> >> using very large fonts, you may have to define the font dimension in
> >> \definebodyfont or \definebodyfontenvironment.
> >
> > Okay.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Xan.
> >
> > PS: A couriosity: is there a roadmap of versions/features for context?.
> > I see that context is continously improved....
>
> An old document http://pragma-ade.com/present/road/roadmap.pdf
> and recent changes http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mk.pdf
>
> AFIAU, new features are based on user's requests and Hans' needs.
>
> Aditya
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