Re: basic fontsizes question

[Thomas Fehige <thomas@fehige.de>]

Thank you Wolfgang, that solves the mystery. (As the poster is for a 
philosophical association, "few words" is not applicable here.)

Am 08.06.2016 um 11:11 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
>> Thomas Fehige <mailto:thomas@fehige.de>
>> 8. Juni 2016 um 10:35
>> Nevertheless, I prefer to keep all the font and fontsize definitions
>> and tweaks together in the preamble. This poster is not the only work
>> I'm planning to do in ConTeXt, and I need to learn to swim while
>> already in the water ;) .
> For short texts where you want a certain style and size (e.g. a title
> page or a poster with few words) \definedfont is the recommended method,
> for larger amounts of the text (e.g. the abstract of a book) you can use
> \switchtobodyfont to change the size.
>> Meanwhile I found the command \definebodyfontswitch and defined
>> switches like \normalsize, \scriptsize, \large, \Large etc.
> The \definebodyfontswitch creates only a command which uses
> \switchtobodyfont with a fixed number of arguments.
>> But this doesn't explain why \definebodyfontenvironment did not do
>> anything in my MNWE. The fonts book is not very clear on its intended
>> use.
> You put spaces before and after = which aren’t allowed there.
>
> \definebodyfontenvironment
>    [24pt]
>    [         small=22pt,
>                big=28pt,
>                  x=22pt,
>                 xx=16pt,
>                  a=30pt,
>                  b=40pt,
>                  c=50pt,
>                  d=60pt,
>     interlinespace=30pt,
>                 em=italic]
>
> \setupbodyfont[palatino,24pt]
>
> \starttext
>
> \startlines
>   \tf   tf
> {\tfa  tfa}
> {\tfb  tfb}
> {\tfc  tfc}
> {\tfd  tfd}
> {\tfx  tfx}
> {\tfxx tfxx}
> \stoplines
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
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