From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19866 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Tremblay Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: confused on font size Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:24:02 -0400 Message-ID: <20050414232402.GA8532@localhost.localdomain> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1113520816 7337 80.91.229.2 (14 Apr 2005 23:20:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:20:16 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 15 01:20:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DMDcp-00061y-50 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:19:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCC891290C; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13179-02; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 842FC128FE; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C5FC128FE for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:14 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13107-03 for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from rdsmtp.iglou.com (rdsmtp.iglou.com [192.107.41.63]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F8D4128FB for ; Fri, 15 Apr 2005 01:23:13 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.107.41.39] (helo=iglou4.iglou.com) by rdsmtp.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DMDg0-00020L-C7 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [64.253.97.143] (helo=localhost.localdomain) by iglou4.iglou.com with esmtp (8.12.5/8.12.5) id 1DMDg0-00020H-7m for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:23:12 -0400 Original-Received: by localhost.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 501) id D99CF1BBBD; Thu, 14 Apr 2005 19:24:02 -0400 (EDT) Original-To: context mailing list Mail-Followup-To: context mailing list Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19866 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19866 The main manual on ConTeXt give a number of different ways to change font sizes (if I understand it correctly): 1. {\switchtobodyfont[18pt] text} 2. {\tfx font size ??} 3. {\xii some font} What are the advantages of each? I would think that option (1) would be the simplest and clearest to use. Thanks Paul -- ************************ *Paul Tremblay * *phthenry@iglou.com * ************************