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From: "Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Losing my patience with (understanding) ConTeXt/LuaTeX's font handling... [ re: Whacko font behaviour ? ( Or Am I ? :O) ]
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2008 13:32:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <115224fb0807170432i200519c0sf25f611461877f8e@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <326847810807161218q3d236702y9ca925195d30e03d@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 9:18 PM, Alan Stone
<software.list.1es9s@gmail.com> wrote:
>> (1) \definefont[myChapterFont][myHeadingsFont sa 1.728]
>>You could either use a real font name like 'Arial' or a symbolic name
>>defined with \definefontsynonym like 'Serif', 'SerifBold', 'Sans',
>>'Dummy-Regular' etc. in the second argument of \definefont but not
>>the name for a font collection defined with \definetype, in your case
>>\definefont[myChapterFont][Sans sa 1.728]
>>or
>>\definefont[myChapterFont][DummyRegular sa 1.728]
>
> So ( and considering the example at
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Chapters_headers )
> I tried...

The example use the two symbolic names Regular and RegularBold which
are defined as synonyms for Serif and SerifBold wich are itself will always
work because they result in the current serif regular and serif bold style
independant of the font.

Regards,
Wolfgang
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-07-17 11:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-16 19:18 Alan Stone
2008-07-16 23:14 ` Diego Depaoli
2008-07-16 23:23   ` Diego Depaoli
2008-07-17  6:30   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17 15:39     ` Diego Depaoli
2008-07-18 15:16       ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-18 21:22         ` Diego Depaoli
2008-07-19  4:49           ` Charles P. Schaum
2008-07-19 10:03             ` Alan Stone
2008-07-19 13:25               ` John Culleton
2008-07-21  6:38                 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17  6:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-17 15:00   ` Alan Stone
2008-07-18 15:12     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-18 15:56       ` Olivier Guéry
2008-07-18 20:45       ` Alan Stone
2008-07-18 21:44         ` Andrea Valle
2008-07-17 11:32 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-07-20 11:13 Alan Stone
2008-07-21  6:29 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-07-21  7:26   ` Alan Stone

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