how to: switch to another font

how to: switch to another font

[Uwe Koloska]

Hello Hans, hello all,

I have defined a font that shall only be used for some words (think of it 
as a logo font).
  \definefontsynonym[Batmos-Regular] [...]
Now I want to write "Hello this is {\switchFont{Batmos-Regular}cool stuff} 
and ..." without defining an extra font with \definefont.  Is this 
possible, or do I have to explicitly define all fonts that I wann use in 
the document.

Now I have:
  \def\setBatmosFont%
    {\definefont[batmosFont][Batmos-Regular sa
    \multiply\currentfontscale by 1.4]\batmosFont}
that switches to this particular font and honours the current fontsize.  
Since the font has a smaller x-height, I have to scale it.

If there is no easy way to say: "Switch to this font and honour the current 
size" -- is my solution well defined?

Uwe

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Re: how to: switch to another font

[Hans Hagen]

At 04:56 PM 2/16/01 +0100, Uwe Koloska wrote:
>Hello Hans, hello all,
>
>I have defined a font that shall only be used for some words (think of it 
>as a logo font).
>  \definefontsynonym[Batmos-Regular] [...]
>Now I want to write "Hello this is {\switchFont{Batmos-Regular}cool stuff} 
>and ..." without defining an extra font with \definefont.  Is this 
>possible, or do I have to explicitly define all fonts that I wann use in 
>the document.
>
>Now I have:
>  \def\setBatmosFont%
>    {\definefont[batmosFont][Batmos-Regular sa
>    \multiply\currentfontscale by 1.4]\batmosFont}
>that switches to this particular font and honours the current fontsize.  
>Since the font has a smaller x-height, I have to scale it.
>
>If there is no easy way to say: "Switch to this font and honour the current 
>size" -- is my solution well defined?

\definefont font is a rather raw command

it does support dynamic filenames, so you can say: 

\definefontsynonym[blabla][bla]

\definefont[blablala][blabla sa 1] 

and redefine the fontsynonym anywhere you want and \bablabla will follow. 

what do you mean with the scaling? sa 1.4 does follow the scale, doesn't
it? You can also try: 

[somefont at 3ex] 

or alike. Or do you want something more tricky? 

Hans
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