Re: XeConTeXt bug report I: strange benchmark

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Hi Mojca

let me show you a neat trick ... just as distraction of your thesis work 
...

\starttypescript[serif] [modern]
   \definefontsynonym [Whatever] [file:AdobeSongStd-Light]
\stoptypescript
\starttypescript[zhfont]
   \definetypeface [zhfont] [rm] [serif] [modern] [default]
\stoptypescript

\definebodyfont [default] [rm] [wh=Whatever sa 1]

\edef\fontalternativetextlist{\fontalternativetextlist,wh}

% no chinese in math anyway
%
% \let\whfam\nnfam
%
% \appendtoks
%   \dosettextfamily\c!wh
% \to \textstrategies

\usetypescript[zhfont] \setupbodyfont[zhfont,10pt]

\starttext

\dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\wh 你好}}

\tfd \dorecurse{10000}{ hello {\wh 你好}}

\stoptext

this works because the low level system is not frozen but extensible by 
design (or a feature); of course, the more such extra alternatives we 
define by default (which we therefore don't) the slower slovenian 
typesetting becomes when again we do a full bodyfont switch -)

Hans

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