Re: First go at book with ConTeXt, questions

[Taco Hoekwater <Taco.Hoekwater@wkap.nl>]

On Thu, 30 Jul 1998 08:54:24 +0200 Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> Berend de Boer wrote:
> 
> > > So, if you say \def\os{\oldstyle}, you can use this.
> > 
> > Is this correct? \os takes the current font size into account, \oldstyle doesn't I believe.
> 
> Right, but Frans probably only uses oldstyle in his pagenumbers. Frans,
> how is \oldstyle defined? 

\oldstyle is from plain.tex and basically just switches to \fam1.
\os does almost the same, but uses context's font mechanism 
(\normalizedbodysize\cm\mi). In general the following trick
works:

  \definealternativestyle [oud] [\oldstyle]  []
  \starttekst
  Er zijn \oud{7} kinderen in klas {\oud 3}.
  \stoptekst

> I have to admit that oldstyle is not implememented very well, simply
> because I lack os fonts. I need more input on that. 

Oldstyle should be part of the encoding-specific commands, just like 
the accents. Now I have had to redefine \oldstyle for Frans to get 
the above definition to work. (font-fg.tex says: \let\oldstyle\sc)

Taco

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