From: "Adam Lindsay" <atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ...
Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:59:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050421205917.22138@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4275956D@webmail.colostate.edu>
Idris Samawi Hamid said this at Thu, 21 Apr 2005 12:36:55 -0600:
>Hmm, I was a little worried at first about >2-char switches at first, till I
>noticed that type-siz.tex uses some four-letter switches as well, e.g.
>
>============line-575==============
> \definebodyfont [12pt] [mm]
> [mrbf=xcmb12,
> exbf=cmex10 at 12pt,
> mibf=cmmib10 at 12pt,
> sybf=cmbsy10 at 12pt]
>=====================================
>
>So I assumed that such a scheme would work.
Empirical experimentation was my guide, really. The lines you cite above
are for the very special bold math case, which came into the core only a
year or two ago.
<http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/magazines/mag-0005.pdf>
adam
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-04-21 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-04-21 18:36 Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-21 19:56 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-04-21 22:43 ` Vit Zyka
2005-04-21 23:00 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-04-22 8:16 ` Hans Hagen
2005-04-22 9:38 ` Vit Zyka
2005-04-22 14:36 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-22 14:55 ` Adam Lindsay
2005-04-22 17:13 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-21 19:59 ` Adam Lindsay [this message]
2005-04-21 23:53 Idris Samawi Hamid
2005-04-22 8:45 ` Vit Zyka
2005-04-22 9:03 ` Taco Hoekwater
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