On Thu, 27 May 2004 23:47:07 +0200, Hans Hagen
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
you can play with:
\starttext
% \startencoding[...]
\defineaccent = {idris} {\idris}
\definecharacter idris {sirdi}
% \stopencoding
he \={idris}!
\stoptext
I don't get it; when I run this as given I don't get any accents; I just
get