Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 3:12 PM, Hans Hagen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wolfgang Schuster wrote: >> >>> AFAIK they are the command to switch from one style to another one, >>> e.g. \rm, \ss >>> but I wondered myself about this. >> not really, since we also have hw (handwritten) and cg (calligraphy) > > I know rm, ss, tt, mm, hw and cg but you write in the font manual it is > also possible to define own commands, is this possible for the short > command and if yes how. > >> anyhow, sometimes i do map the ss to a serif or rm to sans; depends on >> how mixed your doc may be > > Do you mean I could write \definetype [...] [rm] [sans] to get a sans font > with the \rm command.
indeed rm ss etc are defined infont-ini and you can define more if needed Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________