From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/100 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl (Frans Goddijn) Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: bigger characters Date: 30 Jul 98 13:40:01 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <2a1_9807301413@fgbbs.iaf.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035390977 21302 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:36:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:36:17 +0000 (UTC) Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:100 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:100 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! Frans Goddijn | bbs: +31 (0)26 3217041 Postbus 30196 | email: fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl 6803 AD Arnhem | tel: +31 (0)26 3219342 The Netherlands | http://www.iaf.nl/Users/Meridian -- You are what you is