Lars Huttar mailto:lars_huttar@sil.org 11. November 2013 18:00 Hello, I have the following MWE: \starttext
\setuptab[headstyle=ssbfb]
\setuptab[headstyle=\ssbfb]
\tab{foo} \input knuth \par
\stoptext
Here, the headstyle specifies a sans font with boldface style, at 1.44 times the current bodyfont size.
However, I want to be able to specify an absolute point size, instead of a relative size.
I tried variations like
\setuptab[headstyle=18pt]
but that has no effect: the size remains 12pt, or whatever the default is.
If I use \setuptab[headstyle={\switchtobodyfont[18pt]}]
then the size takes effect (for the key only, which is what I want). I can combine that with sans: \setuptab[headstyle={\switchtobodyfont[ss, 18pt]}]
and that works.
But how to mix in boldface? \setuptab[headstyle={\switchtobodyfont[ssbf, 18pt]}]
doesn't give sans boldface, but reverts to a serif, non-bold style (at 18pt size).
\setuptab[headstyle={\switchtobodyfont[ss, bf, 18pt]}]
gives the same results.
I finally tried
\setuptab[headstyle={\ssbf \switchtobodyfont[18pt]}]
and that works! But it seems clunky: it looks like it requires two font switches, which I'm told makes things slower.
And I can't help wondering if I'm missing some simpler way. Is there a more efficient or elegant way to do this?
\definefont[BigBoldSans][SansBold at 18pt] \setuptab[headstyle=BigBoldSans] Wolfgang
