From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9305 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Beginners Questions on Fonts Date: Wed, 18 Sep 2002 11:50:44 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <20020918115044.5a0cbe4e.taco@elvenkind.com> References: <20020918083939.GA7674@zargon-client1.chello.at> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399645 2177 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:00:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:00:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Peter Sojan In-Reply-To: <20020918083939.GA7674@zargon-client1.chello.at> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9305 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9305 This should help: http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mfonts.pdf On Wed, 18 Sep 2002 10:39:39 +0200, Peter wrote: > > Hi all! > > Please help me to clarify following concepts: > > - What is the difference between \setupbodyfont and > \definebodyfont ? How do they relate to each other? > > - What does an argument with multiple sizes mean? > e.g. in: > \definebodyfont [14.4pt,12pt,11pt,10pt,9pt,8pt,7pt,6pt,5pt] > [ss] > [default] > > What does "default" mean? > > - What is a bodyfont-environment? > > - What's the difference between > \definebodyfontenvironment [12pt] > [ text=12pt, script=9pt, scriptscript=7pt, > x=10pt, xx=8pt, > big=12pt, small=10pt] > and simple > \definebodyfontenvironment [24pt] > > - What's the difference between \definefontsynonym and > \definefont? Both allow building aliases, but the > latter also allows scaling, right? > > I'm sorry for this rather stupid questions, but any answer > could help me to gain further insight. > > Thx in advance! > Peter > > > > > -- groeten, Taco