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Am Sonntag, 17.08.03, um 17:25 Uhr (Europe/Zurich) schrieb John=20
Culleton:

> I have felt for some time that the Context font mechanism required too=20=

> much
> work for too little result.  So I use it where feasable but don't feel=20=

> guilty
> about dipping back into the \font mechanism where necessary, such as=20=

> for a
> title page font.

Thanks, your lowlevel way surely works, but it's not my way.
I try to avoid lowlevel command where possible, not only
due to a lack of the TeXbook... ;-)

Gr=FC=DFlis vom Hraban!
--=20
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