Thank you very much - that makes sense! I'm moving slowly to ConTeXt after many years of LaTeX - so expect lots of elementary questions from me, at least initially!
Thanks again, Alasdair On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 10:30 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 11-3-2011 12:03, Alasdair McAndrew wrote: > >> In some overheads, I'd like all bold-faced font to appear in a given >> color, >> say red. How do I set this up, so that {\bf some text} will display "some >> text" in red? >> > > Fonts and colors are unrelated properties (and always will be in context). > The way to go is abstraction: > > \definestartstop[important][color=red,style=bold] > > test {\important test} or \important{test} test ... > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE > Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands > tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com > | www.pragma-pod.nl > ----------------------------------------------------------------- >
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