On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, John R. Culleton wrote: > On Tuesday 05 December 2006 17:27, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >> Hi, >> > >> \definefont[BigText] [Calligarphic sa 2] >> >> \BigText test >> >> which gives me the math calligraphic fonts. How do I get the text >> calligraphic fonts, using \definefont? > > The virtue of the Context system of font specification lies in the ability to > change sizes with \tfb, \tfx etc. For a single size used for e.g, title page > I use a regular TeX \font statement. For example after I fought through the > AGaramond problem for body fonts, with great help from this list, I still > retained some additional special statements like: > > \font\MySans uhvbo8r at 30pt > \font\BigSans uhvb8r at 30pt > \font\MedSans uhvb8r at 20pt > etc. > > This is a bit tedious but pretty much mistake proof. And the call for each > variant is simple.
Thank you. I guess I will have to learn how plain TeX handles fonts. Until now, ConTeXt saved me from the gory details :) But I am still confused. Why does text calligraphic font not have a font synonym? Aditya _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ntg.nl http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context
