Re: Fonts switching and styles ..

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Dirar BOUGATEF wrote:

> I have tried style={\switchtobodyfont[karat]} and it works. Now how to 
> switch to a different size without going through:

you can do things like:

\usetypescript [sans][karat][map,name]

to load the appropriate defs

> \definefont[MyPartFont][SansBold at 24pt]
> \setuphead[part][style=\MyPartFont]
> 
> The problem i see here is that i have to go through 
> \setupbodyfont[karat] and that i can't say something like:
> 
> \definefont[MyPartFont][karat at 24pt]

actually you can, goven that karat is known

Serif SerifBold Sans SansItalic
Karat KaratBold (or maybe Karat-Bold) texnansi-karat

are all valid in a \definefont

> Lets say i have 5 fonts in my document i only want to say 
> \setupbodyfont[MyMainFont] once, then i should have other mecanisms for 
> switching properly to other fonts at different sizes.
> Why does \definefont maps only from Sans, Serif, SansBold etc. ? This is 
> quit fastidious, cause for this to work we have to use \setupbodyfont 
> first and follow the steps above.
> 
> I may be missing something out there ..

i think so -)

Hans

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