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 ...
>
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