From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/45914 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Taco Hoekwater Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: difference between TeX behavior and ConTeXt Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:11:45 +0100 Message-ID: <492D5921.4070002@elvenkind.com> References: <492C6C3C.8040707@sil.org> <492C7786.5070609@sil.org> <492C8C1D.6020400@quokka70.fastmail.fm> <492CD0FB.9030105@sil.org> <20081126084130.GA22697@atos.labs.wmid.amu.edu.pl> <492D5270.20405@sil.org> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227708828 18651 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2008 14:13:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 14:13:48 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Nov 26 15:14:50 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L5LAH-0005c8-Pj for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:14:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 544FF1FC32; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:13:38 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32457-03-4; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:12:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B5F91FB72; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:12:22 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C0681FB60 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:12:20 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 32154-01-7 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:11:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from plane.elvenkind.com (elvenknd.xs4all.nl [82.95.203.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 529D51FB8F for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:11:45 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from glenlivet.elvenkind.com (glenlivet.elvenkind.com [10.10.0.6]) by plane.elvenkind.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F69E802BE17 for ; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 15:11:45 +0100 (CET) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20080929) In-Reply-To: <492D5270.20405@sil.org> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:45914 Archived-At: Lars Huttar wrote: > > Except perhaps the documentation. I have yet to find a reference that > clearly describes what \rm is to do in ConTeXt. One responder pointed to > http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/cont-eni.pdf. The closest > thing to a definition of \rm there that I could find is on p. 111: "The > command \rm is used to switch to a roman/serif/regular style,..." In his first reply to your message, Aditya posted the link to the new manual chapter on "Typography". This chapter and the following one "Fonts" are planned to be the definitive answer to all questions regarding fonts and font selection in ConTeXt. If you believe the text could be improved even further beyond the changes already made compared to the manual at Pragma ADE, please tell us how (for sure, the meaning of the macro \rm is not going to change!). We all want the manual to be as good as humanly possible, but it is often quite hard to write at beginners' level when you have advanced past that point yourself. If you can find a good (or at least better) way to express what \rm,\ss,\tt,\hw and \cg do compared to the current prose in co-typography, please post it. Just keep in mind that the manual has to remain independant, so texts that presuppose knowledge of plain TeX and/or LaTeX are not acceptable except as a side/footnote. Best wishes, Taco ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________