From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12911 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont and font mechanism Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 11:25:20 -0400 Organization: WexfordPress Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <200308171125.20210.john@wexfordpress.com> References: <5955E2DC-D0B5-11D7-A168-0030659899AA@fiee.net> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061148629 8410 80.91.224.253 (17 Aug 2003 19:30:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 19:30:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Sun Aug 17 21:30:27 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19oTER-000186-00 for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:30:27 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4C69710AF1; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:30:13 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mta5.adelphia.net (mta5.mail.adelphia.net [64.8.50.187]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A707A10ACC for ; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 21:24:12 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from md-wmnsmd-cuda2-c3e-67-21-50-181.chvlva.adelphia.net ([67.21.50.181]) by mta5.adelphia.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.32 201-253-122-126-132-20030307) with ESMTP id <20030817192411.KCMH1357.mta5.adelphia.net@md-wmnsmd-cuda2-c3e-67-21-50-181.chvlva.adelphia.net>; Sun, 17 Aug 2003 15:24:11 -0400 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl, Henning Hraban Ramm User-Agent: KMail/1.5 In-Reply-To: <5955E2DC-D0B5-11D7-A168-0030659899AA@fiee.net> Content-Disposition: inline Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12911 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12911 On Sunday 17 August 2003 09:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote: > Digging deep... ;-) > > While playing with some freeware fonts by apostrophic labs, > shy fonts et al., I recognized some limitations of ConTeXt's > (or TeX's?) font mechanism. I know this was discussed earlier, > but I can't remember/find and answer. The primitive \font statement would in fact enable one to use a hundred different variants if needed. But then they would have to be called individually in each instance of use. Context as a family of synonyms which allows for a finite number of different combinations. These could be used as the font names where applicable, which preserves the usual Context mechanisms for switching fonts for the usual cases. For the unusual case one would use the regular TeX font mechanism: font\foo foobar at 10pt \foo Text... ...and so on. I have felt for some time that the Context font mechanism required too much work for too little result. So I use it where feasable but don't feel guilty about dipping back into the \font mechanism where necessary, such as for a title page font. But I am only a (perpetual) novice... John Culleton