Re: Font sizes using Chinese module

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On 11/7/07, Duncan Hothersall wrote:
> Hello all. I hope this is quite a simple question.
>
> But I really need to be able to do the equivalent of \definedfont[Bold
> at 48pt]. Unfortunately this doesn't work - it produces normal text size
> and weight.

I have absolutely no experience and/or knowledge about Chinese and its
typesetting, but perhaps something like
    \definedfont[SimplifiedChineseBold at 48pt] could work?

> Unfortunately it isn't easy to post an example, because you need UTF-8
> content, and you need the fonts set up for Chinese (which I believe
> ConTeXt Live doesn't currently have). So I'm hoping that someone
> familiar with the workings of font-chi.tex can tell me how to get
> specific point sizes of specific fonts. Is there a unicode font
> equivalent of \definedfont? Or a way of adding an e and f size
> definition to the default set?

Btw: Is there any reason for not using XeTeX (or LuaTeX in the future)
for Chinese? (To be honest: I have absolutely no idea whether it works
and how good it works if at all, but I would expect less problems
there.)

Mojca
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