On Mar 4, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

> OK, so the first part of my questions about mfonts.pdf;)
>
> Thank you in advance for the answers; I'd like to stress that I'm  
> not in
> a hurry, so please take your time!  Also, as I said, I have nothing
> against being "redirected" to some other part of documentation in case
> it is easier than to write a full answer here.
>
> 1. Do I get it right when I think that \definefontsynonym takes 2 or 3
> arguments, and:
>
> When given two, they mean: (1) the synonym being defined
> and (2) an earlier defined synonym being a "replacement text" for (1);
>
> When given three, (1) is as above, (2) is the filename of the font  
> (tfm
> I guess?) and (3) contains some low-level options like the encoding  
> (are
> there any other options available?)
>
> 2. What does exactly sa mean?  Do I get it right when I think that  
> it's
> the factor by which the "body font size" - i.e., some constant dimen
> parameter defined for the whole document (or environment) - is
> multiplied?  Does the "laziness" of sa mean that the actual scaling  
> will
> happen _after_ the definition of the body font size, which might be  
> e.g.
> different for different components of a product within a project  
> using a
> common environment?  And what is mo?
>
> 3. What are the arguments to \definebodyfont?
>
> 4. What are the relations between \definefontsynonym, \definefont and
> \definebodyfont?
>
> 5. I can understand neither the paragraph right before the
> \definebodyfont example on page 4 of mfonts.pdf, nor the example  
> itself.
> Any hints;)?
>
> CU,
>

Most of your questions are answered in the fonts manual:

http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mfonts.pdf

Thomas
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