Re: how to switch font family

[S2P development <taco.hoekwater@wkap.nl>]

Han The Thanh wrote:
> 
> thanks for the tip. It works, however everytime I switched to another
> family, then the font definition file is loaded again (font-pos.tex). Is
> there anyway to prevent it? My need is to typeset a few characters in the
> body text in different font than the main font, so the switching is used
> quite frequently.

Can't help you straight away. But perhaps you can define this (the
alternate fontfamily) as 'hw' or 'cg'? Context has 5 different text
families at the same time:

\tt \ss \rm \hw \cg

The previous macro then becomes something like:

\def\familyswitch#1{%
      {\edef\oldalternative{\fontalternative}%
      \hw \getvalue{\oldalternative}#1}}

With call:

	\familyswitch{The chars for the other fontfamily}