Re: font switching questions

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

Alan Stone schrieb:
> On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Wolfgang Schuster
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
>   
>>> [...]
>>>       
>> ... it's explained in the fonts manual
>> and in the new ConTeXt manual.
>>     
>
> The most important thing I understand from reading the fonts manual
> and the ConTeXt manual's old and new font chapter for the n-th time
> (lost count), is that explaining fonts and their use is not a piece
> cake. As such, every effort in trying to explain it in a way that's
> understandable to non initiated people can only be appreciated and
> welcomed.
>
> Nevertheless, I wonder...
>
> Are fonts like men, or like women ?  ;O)
>
> To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a
> little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try
> to understand her at all.”
> - Helen Rowland
>
> As for the issue at hand...
>
> Let's say goodbye with a smile, dear,
> Just for a while, dear, we must part.
> Don't let the parting upset you,
> I'll not forget you, sweetheart.
> We'll meet again, don't know where, don't know when,
> But I know we'll meet again, some sunny day.
> Keep smiling through, just like you always do,
> 'Til the blue skies drive the dark clouds far away.
>
> So will you please say hello to the folks that I know,
> Tell them I won't be long.
> They'll be happy to know that as you saw me go,
> I was singing this song.
>
> After the rain comes the rainbow,
> You'll see the rain go, never fear,
> We two can wait for tomorrow,
> Goodbye to sorrow, my dear.
>
> ( source: http://ingeb.org/songs/wellmeet.html )
>
>   
i can't help it, but the song reminds me of the end of


  Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb

the same is true for fonts ;)


- Peter

> Alan
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