Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-30 Thread Lars Huttar
On 9/26/2013 3:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can use \switchtobodyfont to change the size for certain parts of a text but it’s best to keep this to a minimum because \tfa etc. are a lot faster. The reason why you don’t need \setupinterlinespace when you use \switchtobodyfont is that

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-27 Thread Lars Huttar
On 9/26/2013 3:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: Am 25.09.2013 um 23:45 schrieb Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: Wolfgang, thanks for your response. On 9/25/2013 5:02 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can’t expect from \tfa etc. to change the interlinespace because these commands can be used

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-26 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.09.2013 um 23:45 schrieb Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: Wolfgang, thanks for your response. On 9/25/2013 5:02 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can’t expect from \tfa etc. to change the interlinespace because these commands can be used in your paragraphs to change the size of

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-25 Thread Lars Huttar
On 9/24/2013 5:25 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: environment), and the second category only affects the font (and I'm still not clear on how the body font differs from the current font). (Sorry for the terse replies...) {\switchtobodyfont[14pt] Text

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-25 Thread luigi scarso
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org wrote: And is the answer that the bodyfont is a conglomerate of more properties than just the font, including interlinespace? You can read font-ini.mkvi : %D \macros %D {setupbodyfont,switchtobodyfont} %D %D The next two

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-25 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 25.09.2013 um 21:54 schrieb Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org: On 9/24/2013 5:25 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: environment), and the second category only affects the font (and I'm still not clear on how the body font differs from the current font).

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-25 Thread Lars Huttar
Wolfgang, thanks for your response. On 9/25/2013 5:02 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: You can’t expect from \tfa etc. to change the interlinespace because these commands can be used in your paragraphs to change the size of certain words only and in this case you don’t want a forced change of the

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: Hello, I'm working through the reference manual trying to understand how things work in regard to fonts. I'll be submitting clarifications and elaborations to the manual in an attempt to help other non-experts to grasp the design of ConTeXt. There's a

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-24 Thread Lars Huttar
Aditya wrote, Contrast {\switchtobodyfont[14pt] \input ward \endgraf} with {\tfc \input ward \endgraf} Thanks for your help. You've left me to draw my own conclusions from this example, so I'll say what I think this implies, and please correct me if I'm wrong. (Note to other

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-24 Thread Lars Huttar
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

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-24 Thread luigi scarso
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Lars Huttar lars_hut...@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

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-24 Thread Lars Huttar
Luigi, Thanks for your reply. On 9/24/2013 2:18 PM, luigi scarso wrote: On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 7:45 PM, Lars Huttar lars_hut...@sil.org mailto:lars_hut...@sil.org wrote: Is it that \switchdobodyfont changes the *body* font, which engages the associated bodyfont environment...

Re: [NTG-context] question about linespace adjustment

2013-09-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Tue, 24 Sep 2013, Lars Huttar wrote: environment), and the second category only affects the font (and I'm still not clear on how the body font differs from the current font). (Sorry for the terse replies...) {\switchtobodyfont[14pt] Text $math$ \sans{Sans} \endgraf} {\tfc Text $math$