Lars Huttar wrote:
> Interesting.
> As a newbie to typesetting, reading the TeXbook, I certainly wondered
> which "axes" Knuth meant 'roman' to refer to... he simply describes it
> as 'normal "roman"' and gives a visual example. So far, all I'd gathered
> was that it meant "not italic."
you should keep in mind that plain tex is not meant as general puspose
macro package but as base under Don Knuths own book related styles
for instance, there is no general font system, just a bunch of
definitions related to computer modern and math; also there is some math
setup, some register management, some structure commands and a bit of
tabular stuff
at that time i think that the general idea was that one would write a
style for each book (or series) and that a plain like package can be
used as basis
context is (like latex, lamstex, inrstex, amstex, ...) a more generic
and configurable macro package
both methods (dedicated vs generic) have their (dis)advantages
> If it's designed not to do that in ConTeXt -- i.e. the ConTeXt designers
> decided to change the semantics of one of the basic control sequences in
> TeX, rather than merely providing a different one with new semantics --
not in tex, since tex itself has no macros defined, but in plain tex
Hans
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