Re: call for help with context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 03:03 PM 3/8/01 +0100, Han The Thanh wrote:
>Hi Hans,
>
>I posted a few questions to the context mail list but didn't get the
>answer ...

SInce i cannot see you suffering ... 

>1) how to define a new font family alternative similar to \rm, \ss or \tt?
>   I tried to add some code to the file font-ini.tex, however it
>   doesn't work. It seem to be non-trivial, and I don't know context
>   enough yet. I tried to use my own NFSS, but soon found out that it
>   is not a good idea.

\definefontstyle [hanthethanh,htt] [htt]

\definebodyfont
  [10pt,11pt,12pt]
  [htt]
  [tf=Regular sa 1,
   bf=Sans sa 1]

\setupbodyfont[hanthethanh]
\setupfootnotes[n=3,align=normal,tolerance={verytolerant,stretch}]

So, we can mix {\bf whatever fonts} we want in a style like \htt.

>2) I cannot get rid of the overfull boxes in two-column footnote:
>   setting \emergencystretch in the beggining doesn't work for
>   footnote mode (it is always set to 0)

You can add this code to cont-new.tex

\setupfootnotes[\c!uitlijnen=\v!normaal,\c!tolerantie=\v!soepel]

\def\setfootnotebodyfont%
  {\let\setfootnotebodyfont\relax
   \restoreglobalbodyfont
   \switchtobodyfont[\@@vnkorps]%
   \steltolerantiein[\@@vntolerantie]%
   \steluitlijnenin[\@@vnuitlijnen]}

Now you can say:  

\setupfootnotes[align=normal, tolerance={verytoleranr,stretch}]

>3) somehow context breaks page in a very odd way: sometime too much
>   space between body text and footnote, sometime too little. Maybe it
>   has to do with choosing the page dimension that the textheight is
>   not a multiple of the baselineskip.

Indeed. The new otr will give you more control over that. It is a tricky
rounding error problem and (imho) tex does not always give you the control
you need. 

Hans
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