From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/48567 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Rolf Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: font switching questions Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:08 +0100 Message-ID: <49C26668.7090302@gmx.net> References: <326847810903171448l5208311do3b5d440486dd8122@mail.gmail.com> <49C023EF.9050106@wxs.nl> <326847810903180112r369058daxc1ead108ac62746a@mail.gmail.com> <49C0AF85.7040605@wxs.nl> <326847810903180826v1f8e26edva1fbf52dcaad6aab@mail.gmail.com> <326847810903190817u700acd64m786a7cbf411440d7@mail.gmail.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1237477097 6188 80.91.229.12 (19 Mar 2009 15:38:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:38:17 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Thu Mar 19 16:39:34 2009 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 1LkKJx-0002h8-PC for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:38:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A5B321FC01; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:48 +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 06558-02; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B93E91FBDB; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:21 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE6F1FBDB for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:19 +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 31332-05 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (filter3-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.71]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9E541FBBD for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by filter3-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with SMTP id n2JFaBg2026953 for ; Thu, 19 Mar 2009 16:36:12 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 19 Mar 2009 15:36:10 -0000 Original-Received: from i577BFFFF.versanet.de (EHLO [192.168.1.3]) [87.123.255.255] by mail.gmx.net (mp063) with SMTP; 19 Mar 2009 16:36:10 +0100 X-Authenticated: #24293357 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19uHmUv0WhukkqTEq7rFlOpSKgpr+AQzilQpVS0IB U5fv6vEvMO2N5i User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <326847810903190817u700acd64m786a7cbf411440d7@mail.gmail.com> X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-FuHaFi: 0.58 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.165.64.20; country=DE; region=01; city=Karlsruhe; latitude=49.0047; longitude=8.3858; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=49.0047,8.3858&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 196173402 - 91143cc60b0a X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.71 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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:48567 Archived-At: Alan Stone schrieb: > On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Wolfgang Schuster > 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.=94 > - 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 > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > 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-co= ntext > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > _________________________________________________________________________= __________ > > = -- = "Es ist doch ein Trost, das Geldgier manchmal bl=F6d macht." - Kottan in "Kottan ermittelt", Folge 9: "Die Einteilung" - ___________________________________________________________________________= ________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to t= he Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-cont= ext webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________= ________