From: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Hans van der Meer via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@freedom.nl>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] font style and size interaction
Date: Tue, 30 May 2023 11:33:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6715df8a-18a4-1ef3-cfe2-dbde42548036@freedom.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CDFDD02E-A25C-4DB4-BB3A-66E6E2A2C0C5@ziggo.nl>
On 5/30/2023 10:18 AM, Hans van der Meer via ntg-context wrote:
> There is -- in my perception -- a problem with the interaction between font style and font size changes.
> The order of calling for example \it\small matters because \small\it leads to a different result.
> I would however reason that size and style changes should be in orthogonal spaces, that is: the one should have no effect on the other.
> Cause of this behaviour seems the \tf call included in small. See the accompanying example.
>
> I can try to program around this, but I would prefer not to. Is there a possibility that this behaviour will be changed to \it\small and \small\it giving the same result?
\small does a (massive) bodyfont switch and therefore you end up with
regular tf
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