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From: Marco Patzer <homerow@lavabit.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: How to scale fonts?
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2013 10:51:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130207095111.GL17504@homerow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51136B2D.8000509@gmail.com>


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On 2013–02–07 Devendra Ghate wrote:

> I want to use truly huge (40pt) fonts for chapter numbers.
> In my latex code, I used
> 
> \newfont{\chapterNumber}{pplr9d scaled 7000}
> 
> From the context manual, I thought that
> 
> \definebodyfont [11pt] [rm]  [ tfH=cmr12 scaled 7000]
> 
> should do it. Though the above code doesn't throw any errors,
> it doesn't do anything. What am I doing wrong?
> 
> *MWE*
> 
> \definebodyfont [11pt] [rm]  [ tfH=cmr12 scaled 7000]

\definebodyfont
  [default]
  [tfH=cmr12 scaled 7000]

works for me. Or you can use:

\definefont
  [TitleFont]
  [Serif at 40pt]

\starttext
  \TitleFont FooBar
\stoptext


Marco

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-07  9:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-07  8:51 Devendra Ghate
2013-02-07  9:51 ` Marco Patzer [this message]
2013-02-07 10:19   ` Devendra Ghate
2013-02-07 10:47     ` Marco Patzer

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