On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Lars Huttar wrote: > Hello, > > I've been reading through the TeXbook to solidify the foundations for > TeX programming. In an exercise on roman and italic text, ConTeXt seems > to behave differently from what the book specifies (Plain TEX) at a > fairly fundamental level. > > I could understand ConTeXt possibly changing the details of \rm's > definition, e.g. a change in default font family; but it would really be > surprising to find that the logic of \rm's behavior has been changed. > > Please help me understand if this is a bug or if there is a design > principle of ConTeXt that I should be aware of...
It is a design decision. See the chapter of typography (http://context.aanhet.net/svn/contextman/context-reference/en/co-typography.pdf) in the new manual (under preparation). Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
