Hans, thanks for the detailed answer! My understanding is slowly advancing :D
> in principle we could do without, but this helps > predefining a couple of things that otherwise would slow > down each font switch This confirms my (vague) assumption that deep in the internals it helps structure things. > it also relates to bodyfont environments where there are > relationships between sizes ... thereby creating the a "font enviroment" > in practice, if you choose say 13pt it will work out > ok as things are checked and defined on the fly; but > there might be a slight performance hit This goes towards my fear: I prefer to state things explicitly. "Automagic" that happens in the background covering up for my sloppyness is great, but... creates confusion when things trip up. Internals might change. Or I might have been building on side effects for all I know. For this reason examples with wordy declarations are welcome... Working with hard-blocking Modula compilers was a good teacher, but that's long ago. > you probably want features enables, so "*default" > \definefont [WonderFont] [BoldItalic*default sa 4.8] Hm, I'll have to read up on that one. Thanks ! Martin ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
