From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/20054 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris Samawi Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: proposed convention for variation switching [wasRE:inheriting ... Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:36:02 -0600 Organization: Colorado State University Message-ID: References: <4275956D@webmail.colostate.edu> <20050421205604.33@mail.comp.lancs.ac.uk> <4268B2EF.2070007@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1114180399 2781 80.91.229.2 (22 Apr 2005 14:33:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 14:33:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Apr 22 16:33:16 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOzBs-0008U5-L8 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:31:32 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 218BF12815; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:36:11 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12822-04; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:36:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C59012810; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:36:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3BB212810 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:36:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12788-07 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:36:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from eagle.colostate.edu (eagle.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.90]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA9C8127E9 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 16:36:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by eagle.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j3MEa3S1526566 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:36:03 -0600 Original-Received: from IHAMID (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166]) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.6p2/8.11.0) with ESMTP id j3MEZbH620202 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 08:35:37 -0600 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4268B2EF.2070007@wxs.nl> User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:20054 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:20054 Hi Hans, On Fri, 22 Apr 2005 10:16:47 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote: > i'm not that much in favour of capitalized named (clashes with user=20 > commands as well as some internals), so \scbf is more likely Heh, heh, that was my original idea; with 2-char capitals I was trying to= =20 find a way to help you avoid the late nights, headaches, etc.-) but if \tfa, etc. will soon be obsolete and replaced with \sizea etc.,=20 then we I'm quite happy to go back to \scbf etc. In any case whatever high-level framework we come up with should largely=20 be determined by your decision on the low/mid-level framework. Best Idris --=20 Professor Idris Samawi Hamid Department of Philosophy Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523