From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/7739 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Let's try again:-> [was Re: One last thing:-)] Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:35:35 -0600 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020418092920.032b2ed0@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035398185 21810 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 18:36:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 18:36:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020418092920.032b2ed0@server-1> Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:7739 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:7739 >>1. Why does this work? What is the difference between and >sa 1>? : >so, sa 1 like definitions adapt themselves (and this is how for instance >getglyph in symbol defs can adapt itsef nicely) So I think I understand this now: Although and denote the same font and size, the body font size and magnifications like x, xx, small, and big are generated as functions of the scale factor. So if the scale factor like is not present, then the scaling does not get done, and so \tfx etc. and [myfont, 12pt] don't do any scaling. But \tfa, \tfb, etc still work because these are explicitly defined in terms of \magstep which will scale even without the . Am I understanding this correctly? I will probably mention this in an upcoming font how-to. Thnx again. Best wishes Idris ========================== Dr. Idris Samawi Hamid Depatment of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80526