\em: real italics?

[fg@fgbbs.iaf.nl (Frans Goddijn)]

said Hans Hagen  to All:

 HH> From the source code font-ini.tex: 

 HH> %D \def\emphasistypeface {\it}
 HH> %D \def\emphasisboldface {\bi}

 HH> You can change these.

I see. Is this also the proper and clean place to do the change? When I
install a later version of ConTeXt I might lose these changes that I make,
so I must keep track of them.

> "small caps italic" font. But I think the chances of that happening 
> would be small if I watch out a little. Or maybe I could have a macro 
> preventing this, a variation of "\kap" that will set in small caps 
> even though the environment is italics?

 HH> Hm. Remind me to look into this one day ... Maybe an entry in the
 HH> font environment definition. 

Anything if it works! ;=}

> Why is it slanted in default? 

 HH> Well, I consider the computer modern italic to be rather ugly
 HH> (unreadable). 

I agree, but then again, if people take the trouble to use ConTeXt because
they want better documents they'd better look out for a better font as
well...

This is what I changed in font-ini.tex: (do I need to generate a new
format now? I think not)

%D \macros
%D  {em,emphasistypeface,emphasisboldface}
%D
%D The next macro started as a copy of Donald Arseneau's
%D \type{\em} (\TUGNEWS\ Vol.~3, no.~1, 1994). His
%D implementation was a bit more sophisticated version of the
%D standard \LATEX\ one. We furter enhanced the macro, so now
%D it also adapts itself to boldface mode. Because we favor
%D {\sl slanted} type over {\it italic}, we made the emphasis
%D adaptable, for instance:
%D
%D \starttypen
%D \def\emphasistypeface {\it}
%D \def\emphasisboldface {\bi}
%D \stoptypen
%D
%D But we prefer:

%\def\emphasistypeface {\sl}
%\def\emphasisboldface {\bs}

%FG But I still prefer (when NOT using Computer Modern):
\def\emphasistypeface {\it}
\def\emphasisboldface {\bi}

Met hartelijke groet!

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