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At 05:24 29/05/2004, you wrote:
On Thu, 27 May 2004 23:47:07 +0200, Hans Hagen
wrote: ah, we stand you sitting there crying over tex, can we?
Sometimes I want to curse TeX, believe me... Seriously though, I have a real phobia for all that low low-level stuff...
Did u have a chance 2 look at my general solution 4 medium fonts? I would like to generalize it to bold and small caps but I don't understand how to set up a conditionals macro that expands in accordance with the surrounding font. I need sthing like
\ifboldtrue \IBARA % parameterized for bold fonts \else \ifsctrue \IBARB % parameterized for sc fonts \else \IBAR % parameterized for medium fonts \fi\fi
take a look at font-ini and search for the definition of \em; but since you suffered already a lot: \unprotect \definesystemvariable{sx} \def\definestylecollection {\dotripleargument\dodefinestylecollection} \def\dodefinestylecollection[#1][#2][#3]% {\unexpanded\setvalue{#1}{\styleinstance[#1]}% \setvalue{\??sx#1:#2}{#3}} \unexpanded\def\styleinstance[#1]% {\executeifdefined{\??sx#1:\fontalternative}{\getvalue{\??sx#1:\s!default}}} \protect \definestylecollection[mine][default][sorry] \definestylecollection[mine][bf][\sl] \definestylecollection[mine][sl][\tt] {\bf test \mine test \sl test \mine test \bs oeps \mine oeps} let me know if this works ok, maybe i can add it to the kernel then Hans