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From: "Jörg Weger" <joerg73.muc@googlemail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
Subject: Re: Font switching on title page
Date: Sun, 01 Feb 2015 13:00:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54CE1540.8060507@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54CE0842.4020702@gmx.es>

Thank you very much Pablo, indeed it helps :)

Meanwhile I had found a solution by putting as well title and subtitle 
(author name) into groups

\begingroup ... \endgroup

but your braces solution is less typing and less distraction from the text.


Greetings Jörg



On 01.02.2015 12:04, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
> On 02/01/2015 11:37 AM, Jörg Weger wrote:
>> I have started to design a title page for a paper.
>>
>> First comes an information block at bodyfont size \tf (all in sans
>> serif), followed by the title of the paper in \bfd, then the author
>> (=me) in \bfa. The information block that follows then should be in
>> bodyfont size again, but it isn’t, it is too tall. What am I missing
>> about font switching? Is it maybe because it is a makeup page?
>
> Hi Jörg,
>
> "pagestate=stop" is the default in makeups, so you don’t need to add it.
>
> \tf only changes the font to roman, but not the size. I don’t know
> whether there is a switch that does that.
>
> The best way avoid problems when using font switches is to enclose them
> in braces.
>
> Such as in (complete sample):
>
> \definemakeup[titlepage][doublesided=no]
>
> \starttext
>
> \starttitlepagemakeup[top=,]
>
> {\ss
>
> information \crlf
> about \crlf
> university \crlf
> and \crlf
> course \par}
>
> \blank[4*line]
>
> {\bfd \ss
>
> Paper \par}
>
> \blank
>
> {\bfa \ss
>
> by me}
>
> \blank[4*line]
>
> {\ss
>
> my \crlf
> information, \crlf
> adress \crlf
> etc.}
>
> \stoptitlepagemakeup
>
> I hope it helps,
>
>
> Pablo
>
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  reply	other threads:[~2015-02-01 12:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-01 10:37 Jörg Weger
2015-02-01 11:04 ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-02-01 12:00   ` Jörg Weger [this message]
2015-02-01 12:55     ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-02-02 10:26   ` Wolfgang Schuster

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