From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: question about linespace adjustment
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2013 20:18:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsBxmgj5K1VRpp_id-4FKgCehdfTqTe+991UiPY-W6re7g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5241CFD3.4020008@sil.org>
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On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Lars Huttar <lars_huttar@sil.org> wrote:
> On 9/24/2013 12:01 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
> >
> > Can you explain how/why the two ways of increasing the font size should
> > have such different effects? (I have read section 5.8 and 5.9 about
> > selecting bodyfonts and interlinespace but still don't get it.)
> > \tfc is described as a "font selector" command (5.3.2). It seems to me
> > that both \tfc and \switchtobodyfont[20pt] simply attempt to switch to a
> > different size of whatever bodyfont is currently in effect. But there
> > must be something I'm missing. (Or else it's just an arbitrary
> > distinction, but that seems unlikely.)
> >
> >
>
> Is it that \switchdobodyfont changes the *body* font, which engages the
> associated bodyfont environment...
> whereas \tfc changes the *font*, not the *body* font?
>
> Lars
>
> You can look into
font-pre.mkiv
\tfc augment the fontsize of a factor of 1.728
It's relative to the default fount size not to the current fontsize:
{\tfc foo {\tfc foo}} both foo have the same size
<http://contextgarden.net>
But interlinespace is not modified, so we need to reset
\starttext
OK: \input knuth\blank{\tfx WRONG: \input knuth\blank \tfc WRONG: \input
knuth\relax} \page
OK: \input knuth\blank{\tfx\setupinterlinespace OK: \input knuth\blank \tfc
WRONG: \input knuth\blank} \page
OK: \input knuth\blank{\tfx\setupinterlinespace OK: \input knuth\blank
\tfc\setupinterlinespace OK: \input knuth\blank}
\stoptext
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luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-24 18:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-24 14:36 Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 14:51 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-24 16:01 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 17:45 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 18:18 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2013-09-24 21:07 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-24 21:25 ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-25 19:54 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-25 21:00 ` luigi scarso
2013-09-25 21:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-25 21:45 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-26 19:47 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-27 15:57 ` Lars Huttar
2013-09-30 20:22 ` Lars Huttar
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