From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/3380 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \bold\ss Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2000 01:27:12 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3.0.6.32.20001121012712.014396d0@pop.wxs.nl> References: <3.0.6.32.20001119231000.00a575a0@pop.wxs.nl> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035394116 16552 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:28:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:28:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Berend de Boer In-Reply-To: <3A197D34.5040504@nederware.nl> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:3380 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:3380 At 08:36 PM 11/20/00 +0100, Berend de Boer wrote: > >Hans Hagen wrote: > >>> Is it by design that \ss wipes out \bold? Although \ss\bold works as >>> expected, \bold\ss results only in \ss. >> >> >> right, \rm \ss \tt \hw \cg ... do a rather massive switch and set the font >> to regular >> >> If this is annoying, I can make it an option. > > >For the casual user \ss\bold or \bold\ss are the same thing. If you >don't know about font families and such. > >I don't mind anymore, but I can remember being suprised a bit by it >sometimes as well. \ss is a massive style switch \bold or \bf is simple font switch \ssbf is a fast font switch for a style [no math fam switch] The last one can often be used in pure text apps and is fast, while \bf also sets \bfx and \bfxx and \tx and \txx Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------