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From: Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: question about linespace adjustment
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 13:45:55 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5241CFD3.4020008@sil.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5241B74E.3030403@sil.org>

On 9/24/2013 12:01 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
>
> Can you explain how/why the two ways of increasing the font size should
> have such different effects? (I have read section 5.8 and 5.9 about
> selecting bodyfonts and interlinespace but still don't get it.)
> \tfc is described as a "font selector" command (5.3.2). It seems to me
> that both \tfc and \switchtobodyfont[20pt] simply attempt to switch to a
> different size of whatever bodyfont is currently in effect. But there
> must be something I'm missing. (Or else it's just an arbitrary
> distinction, but that seems unlikely.)
>
>

Is it that \switchdobodyfont changes the *body* font, which engages the
associated bodyfont environment...
whereas \tfc changes the *font*, not the *body* font?

Lars

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-24 17:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-24 14:36 Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 14:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-24 16:01 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 17:45   ` Lars Huttar [this message]
2013-09-24 18:18     ` luigi scarso
2013-09-24 21:07       ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 21:25         ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-25 19:54           ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-25 21:00             ` luigi scarso
2013-09-25 21:02             ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-25 21:45               ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-26 19:47                 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-27 15:57                   ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-30 20:22                   ` Lars Huttar

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