From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Font style switching
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:27:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020122132335.032ffdc8@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <428413514.20020122124147@bigfoot.com>
At 12:41 PM 1/22/2002 +0100, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>Hello,
>
>Yet Another Proposal (I think I already went over this, or maybe
>not, whatever).
>
>Some users (me, but I just discovered I'm not the only one) like
>to be able to switch font style/weight/size/whatever without
>touching the other characteristics.
>
>For example: triggering a \bf within the scope of an \it should
>actually call \bi, and conversely. Or, boldfacing or italicizing a
you can do that using the low level yet undocumented but feel free to
document them (one example per macro will do) macros:
\setcurrentfont
\setcurrentfontbody
\setcurrentfontstyle
\setcurrentfontbodyalternative
\setcurrentfontalternative
\setcurrentfontsize
\setcurrentfontstylealternative
\setcurrentfontstylesize
\setcurrentfontalternativesize
\setcurrentfontstylealternativesize
>Caps font (yes, I know it's a typographical horror).
then why ask?
>(BTW, no Upright Italic in ConTeXt?)
no, never felt the need -)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-22 12:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-22 11:41 Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-01-22 12:27 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2002-01-22 17:08 ` Re[2]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
2002-01-23 11:26 ` Hans Hagen
2002-01-23 12:05 ` Re[3]: " Giuseppe Bilotta
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