From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20034 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Adam Lindsay" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ... Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:59:17 +0100 Message-ID: <20050421205917.22138@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> References: <4275956D@webmail.colostate.edu> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114113303 11264 80.91.229.2 (21 Apr 2005 19:55:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2005 19:55:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Apr 21 21:55:01 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 1DOhlH-000334-RB for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:54:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 477F4127F7; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:59:27 +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 02763-01-4; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:59:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 382CE127D0; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:59:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8DD44127D0 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:59:21 +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 02763-01-3 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:59:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk [148.88.3.45]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BCC48127C6 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 21:59:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.31.104] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j3LJxIIk012786 for ; Thu, 21 Apr 2005 20:59:19 +0100 (BST) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <4275956D@webmail.colostate.edu> X-Mailer: CTM PowerMail version 5.1 build 4340 English 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:20034 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20034 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. adam -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Adam T. Lindsay, Computing Dept. atl@comp.lancs.ac.uk Lancaster University, InfoLab21 +44(0)1524/510.514 Lancaster, LA1 4WA, UK Fax:+44(0)1524/510.492 -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-