From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/12914 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: texfont and font mechanism Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:22:14 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <5.2.0.9.1.20030818102142.02986978@server-1> References: <5955E2DC-D0B5-11D7-A168-0030659899AA@fiee.net> <5955E2DC-D0B5-11D7-A168-0030659899AA@fiee.net> <200308171125.20210.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1061195910 30202 80.91.224.253 (18 Aug 2003 08:38:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2003 08:38:30 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Mon Aug 18 10:38:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19ofX3-0000ja-00 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:38:29 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9E84710B3F; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:38:25 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.net (mail.solcon.net [212.45.33.5]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A61E310ACC for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:27:55 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-net.nl (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by mail.solcon.net (8.11.6/8.9.3) with ESMTP id h7I8Rpg22900 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:27:51 +0200 Original-Received: from laptop-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3.pragma-net [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-net.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92C22199F for ; Mon, 18 Aug 2003 10:27:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <200308171125.20210.john@wexfordpress.com> Original-References: <5955E2DC-D0B5-11D7-A168-0030659899AA@fiee.net> <5955E2DC-D0B5-11D7-A168-0030659899AA@fiee.net> Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:12914 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:12914 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------