Re: [NTG-context] slanted default (was: \dots again)

[Hans Hagen]

At 08:50 PM 1/21/2003 +0100, you wrote:

Another command (beside \setupbodyfontenvironment[default][em=italic]) that I'll use in every project to correct an (in my opinion) wrong default behaviour of ConTeXt.

there are a few reasons for that:

I know you have your reasons. And ConTeXt is your development, not mine.
But I'm a typographer, and typographers are nit-picking with unimportant matters... ;-)
<typographer mode>

(1) not all fonts have an italic

Fonts without italics are no fonts.

hm, as far i know, an italic style originally is different font, a kind of mimicking handwriting; if they come with a regular font, i consider it a bonus;

also, your definition turns a lot of fonts into no-fonts

(2) i don't like the computer modern italic for emphasizing text

Slanted CM is not better.

well, for our purposes it is al least less distracting than the italic -)

(3) we seldom used \em

Do you always use \it, \bf, \sl? Where's your logical markup?

\definegroupedcommand[important]

{\important ...}

</typographer mode>

<amateurmode/> $smile;

Hans


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