Re: \sf and bigggg fonts

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> 2007/3/7, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>:
>> 
>> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:
>> 
>> > En/na Aditya Mahajan ha escrit:
>> >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007, Xan wrote:
>> >>
>> >>> Is it possible to have the equivalent in \sf in context?. I tried \sf
>> >>> and I get an error. Strange because \sl, \bf, etc exist
>> >>
>> >> \ss? (I am not sure what \sf is supposed to be, so just guessing)
>> >>
>> >
>> > \sf is Sans Serif (latex)
>> > [\rm roman, \tt typewriter, \sl slanted, \emph empasized, \it italic \bf
>> > boldface; see "a not so short intro to latex" for example]
>> 
>> \ss is plain tex's font command for sans serif, and works with
>> context. I do not know why latex chose \sf (sffamily, textsf) instead
>> of ss.
>
>
> You are wrong, \ss is in plain TeX the command to produce the german ß.
> There has never been a predefined command to swith to a sans serif font like
> the corresponding switches for bold and italic.

so much for the feeling that I was beginning to understand fonts :-(

Aditya