bigger characters

[fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl (Frans Goddijn)]

said Hans Hagen  to All:

 HH> The new version also accepts 
 HH> \definefont[name][file at|sa|scaled ...]
 HH> with the advantage that filenames can be mapped to more verbose
 HH> ones.   

I don't understand (mapping verbose files/names) what this means yet, but
hopefully when the new version comes out, the explanation of this new
feature will be illustrated by examples. 

Generally in the ConTeXt manuals, the dense purely logical explanations of
how things work are too dense for me to understand. I see
[...,...=...,...] but I don't understand what should be mentally
substituted for the "..." there. Usually, below such an [...,...=...,...]
there's a grey box with options listed, some of them underlined but it
takes a few examples and their printed results before I get the idea of
it. As a simple user I often seem to lack the intellectual abstraction
level to imagine the workings of the "..." which in my mind remain little
portable black holes... 

I know other users expressly go by way of these abstractions and they skip
the examples. TeX friend Herman Haverkort for instance, when I introduced
him to TeX years a go, borrowed my copy of the TeXbook and, to get the
idea quickly, he only read the paragraphs with double "dangerous bend
signs" besides them and on second reading he read some of the other text,
so he could start hacking as soon as possible ;=}

To come back to the oldstyle tips of a few messages back:: I tried

\def\os{\oldstyle}

but after the first \os{1997} all other text in the chapter was typeset in
the expert set, i.e. small caps and weirder characters.... ;=}

I changed this into the longer

\def\os#1{{\oldstyle #1}}

and now it works. I guess it can be done shorter but it works! 

Met hartelijke groet!

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