Re: \METAPOST bold

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Tue, 06 Aug 2002 11:23:54 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 09:38 AM 8/6/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> 
> >Hi,
> >
> >a short, and i hope easy, question:
> >
> >how can i write the logo \METAPOST in bold. The logo
> >command seems to ignore all font switsches.
> 
> this is because there is no full range of styles available

May be ConTeXt can include the definitions/
substitutions (\definefontsynonym) you gave below.
That should help in most common cases.

> >and:
> >
> >how can switch to that font used in \METAPOST for
> >own texts. (i know that this font contains only 9 glyphs)
> 
> \definefontsynonym [MetaLogo]            [logo10]
> \definefontsynonym [MetaLogoBold]        [logobf10]
> \definefontsynonym [MetaLogoSlanted]     [logosl10]
> \definefontsynonym [MetaLogoItalic]      [logosl10]
> \definefontsynonym [MetaLogoBoldSlanted] [logobf10]
> \definefontsynonym [MetaLogoBoldtalic]   [logobf10]
> 
> \symbolicfont{MetaLogo}

Is there any documentation to this command. I see it
for the first time.

> or
> 
> \definefont[RealMetaFont] [logo10]
> 
> \RealMetaFont

Thanks. This was my current solution, but i thought that
there is something better already included in ConTeXt.

Jens