how to switch font family

how to switch font family

[Han The Thanh]

Hi all,

can someone please tell me how to change the current font family, so that
other atributes (size, weight and style) remain the same?

Thanks,
Thanh

Re: how to switch font family

[Taco Hoekwater]

Han The Thanh wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> can someone please tell me how to change the current font family, so that
> other atributes (size, weight and style) remain the same?

\def\familyswitch#1[#2]{%
     \edef\oldalternative{\fontalternative}%
     \switchtobodyfont[#2]%
     \getvalue{\oldalternative}}

\familyswitch[pos]

-- 
groeten,

Taco

Re: how to switch font family

[Han The Thanh]

Hi Taco,

> > Hi all,
> > 
> > can someone please tell me how to change the current font family, so that
> > other atributes (size, weight and style) remain the same?
> 
> \def\familyswitch#1[#2]{%
>      \edef\oldalternative{\fontalternative}%
>      \switchtobodyfont[#2]%
>      \getvalue{\oldalternative}}
> 
> \familyswitch[pos]

thanks for the tip. It works, however everytime I switched to another
family, then the font definition file is loaded again (font-pos.tex). Is
there anyway to prevent it? My need is to typeset a few characters in the
body text in different font than the main font, so the switching is used
quite frequently.

Regards
Thanh

Re: how to switch font family

[S2P development]

Han The Thanh wrote:
> 
> thanks for the tip. It works, however everytime I switched to another
> family, then the font definition file is loaded again (font-pos.tex). Is
> there anyway to prevent it? My need is to typeset a few characters in the
> body text in different font than the main font, so the switching is used
> quite frequently.

Can't help you straight away. But perhaps you can define this (the
alternate fontfamily) as 'hw' or 'cg'? Context has 5 different text
families at the same time:

\tt \ss \rm \hw \cg

The previous macro then becomes something like:

\def\familyswitch#1{%
      {\edef\oldalternative{\fontalternative}%
      \hw \getvalue{\oldalternative}#1}}

With call:

	\familyswitch{The chars for the other fontfamily}

Re: how to switch font family

[Hans Hagen]

At 01:04 PM 3/7/01 +0100, S2P development wrote:
>Han The Thanh wrote:
>> 
>> thanks for the tip. It works, however everytime I switched to another
>> family, then the font definition file is loaded again (font-pos.tex). Is
>> there anyway to prevent it? My need is to typeset a few characters in the
>> body text in different font than the main font, so the switching is used
>> quite frequently.
>
>Can't help you straight away. But perhaps you can define this (the
>alternate fontfamily) as 'hw' or 'cg'? Context has 5 different text
>families at the same time:
>
>\tt \ss \rm \hw \cg

or more, as you use more -) 

Hans
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Re: how to switch font family

[Han The Thanh]

> >Can't help you straight away. But perhaps you can define this (the
> >alternate fontfamily) as 'hw' or 'cg'? Context has 5 different text
> >families at the same time:
> >
> >\tt \ss \rm \hw \cg
>  
> or more, as you use more -) 

can you please tell me how to define further ones?

Thanh