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Adam Lindsay wrote:

> Hans van der Meer wrote:
>
>> I was probing into the font variant mechanism.
>>
>> QUESTION: Is the variant mechanism exclusively tied to the series  
>> Serif (\rm) and Sans (\ss)?
>
>
> Yes, pretty much, in the implementation's design.

more precisely, it;s related to rm|ss|tt (mapped onto Serif Sans Mono)

Hans