Re: texfont and font mechanism

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:25 17/08/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sunday 17 August 2003 09:18, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
> > Digging deep... ;-)
> >
> > While playing with some freeware fonts by apostrophic labs,
> > shy fonts et al., I recognized some limitations of ConTeXt's
> > (or TeX's?) font mechanism. I know this was discussed earlier,
> > but I can't remember/find and answer.
>
>The primitive \font statement would in fact enable one to use a hundred
>different variants if needed. But then they would have to be called
>individually in each instance of use. Context as a family of synonyms
>which allows for a finite number of different combinations. These could be
>used as the  font names where applicable, which preserves the usual Context
>mechanisms for switching fonts for the usual cases. For the unusual case
>one would use the regular TeX font mechanism:
>
>font\foo foobar at 10pt
>
>\foo
>Text...
>
>...and so on.
>
>I have felt for some time that the Context font mechanism required too much
>work for too little result.  So I use it where feasable but don't feel guilty
>about dipping back into the \font mechanism where necessary, such as for a
>title page font.
>
>But I am only a (perpetual) novice...

\definefont[MyFont][foobar at 10pt]

\MyFont bla bla

Hans
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