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From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: <josephcanedo@gmail.com>
Cc: "ntg-context@ntg.nl" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Simple font size changes command
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2016 09:19:54 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160612091954.2ad09d6a@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544ff3673d204dc0bad0b96e80cfab50@gmail.com>

On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 21:47:07 +0000
<josephcanedo@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> 
> In a simple document using only 1 font but with different sizes what
> are the easiest switch commands to change font size locally ? I am
> aware of \tfa, \tfx etc …. but they do not seem to size in absolute
> size but rather relatively to current font size. In the following
> MWE :
> 
> 
> \starttext
> 
> 
> {\tfd Foo {\tfx Bar1}} {\tfx Bar2} Baz.
> 
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> 
> 
> Bar1 is typeset much larger than Bar2.
> 
> 
> I’d look to write something like but don’t know who to get \BigSize
> and \SmallSize defined (and have Bar1 and Bar2 of same size) :
> 
> 
> {\BigSize Foo {\SmallSize Bar1}} {\SmallSize Bar2} Baz. 
> 
> 
> Many thanks for any hint.

Perhaps (untested):

\definealternativestyle [BigFont] [{\setbodyfont [12pt]}]
\definealternativestyle [SmallFont] [{\setbodyfont [8pt]}]
\definehighlight [BigSize] [style=BigFont]
\definehighlight [SmallSize] [style=SmallFont]

\BigSize{Foo \SmallSize{Bar1}} \SmallSize{Bar2} Baz.

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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-09 21:47 josephcanedo
2016-06-12 15:19 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
2016-06-12 16:57   ` josephcanedo
2016-06-13  3:19     ` Alan BRASLAU
2016-06-13  7:30       ` josephcanedo

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