From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/6594 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Font style switching Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 13:27:38 +0100 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020122132335.032ffdc8@server-1> References: <428413514.20020122124147@bigfoot.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035397116 12010 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:18:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:18:36 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Giuseppe Bilotta In-Reply-To: <428413514.20020122124147@bigfoot.com> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:6594 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:6594 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- fall-back web server: www.pragma-pod.nl -------------------------------------------------------------------------