Re: bigger characters

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Frans Goddijn wrote:

> 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...

Well, there is a certain login in it. ... means that you can specify
more than one. 

I guess that if I added 10 pages of explaining this, few people would
read it. Anyway, I hope it reads more easy than your regular latex style
files. If not, I failed. BTW, these gray stuff is generated from rather
rather structred definitions. When I add a keyword, I only have to add
it to this description, and all manuals are up to date. The QRC docs
(only interactive) explain the keys, but is only partially finished.   

> \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!

  \def\os{\groupedcommand{\oldstyle}{}}

is the better way (accepts {\os ...} and \os{...}) but the official way
is the one Taco explained earlier (the 'oud' definition), which you can
also use as value to the letter/style key. 

BTW, '\groupedcommand' is rather complicated command. If you can
understand the definition (see syst-gen.tex) you a pro. 

Hans

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