From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/60467 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Martin Althoff Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: using \definebodyfont with multiple size declarations -- Why? 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My understanding is slowly advancing = :D > in principle we could do without, but this helps > predefining a couple of things that otherwise would slow > down each font switch This confirms my (vague) assumption that deep in the internals it helps str= ucture things. > it also relates to bodyfont environments where there are > relationships between sizes ... thereby creating the a "font enviroment" > in practice, if you choose say 13pt it will work out > ok=A0 as things are checked and defined on the fly; but > there might be a slight performance hit This goes towards my fear: I prefer to state things explicitly. "Automagic"= that happens in the background covering up for my sloppyness is great, but= ... creates confusion when things trip up. Internals might change. Or I mig= ht have been building on side effects for all I know. = For this reason examples with wordy declarations are welcome... Working wit= h hard-blocking Modula compilers was a good teacher, but that's long ago. > you probably want features enables, so "*default" > \definefont [WonderFont] [BoldItalic*default sa 4.8] Hm, I'll have to read up on that one. = Thanks ! Martin ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________