Re: \sf and bigggg fonts

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

[-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 2038 bytes --]

2007/3/7, Xan <DXpublica@telefonica.net>:
>
> En/na Aditya Mahajan ha escrit:
> > On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:
> >
> >> En/na Wolfgang Schuster ha escrit:
> >>> 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.
> >>>
> >>>
> >> So, is there any command for that?. How can I get \sf in latex in
> context?
> >
> > In ConTeXt, \ss switches to sans serif. What Wolfgang meant (IIUC) was
> > that there is no command in plain tex to switch to sans serif.
> >
> > More details are at
> > http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Basic_Text_Formatting
> >
>
> Okay. Clarified.
> But it does not appear in this wiki page. Maybe you could update it
>
> For the other hand, can you inform me how to translate context interface
> in catalan and spanish language?. Is there any .po file? I don't know
> how context works in this aspect.
>
> And another question: is there a "context planet"? Funny if I could see
> the comments about developers and context users.
>
> Thanks,
> Xan.


Hi Xan,

you should look at the header in the 3rd column.

Wolfgang

[-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 2883 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 139 bytes --]

_______________________________________________
ntg-context mailing list
ntg-context@ntg.nl
http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context