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On 9/26/2013 3:47 PM, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
You can use \switchtobodyfont to change the size for certain parts of a text but it’s best to keep this to a minimum because \tfa etc. are a lot faster.
The reason why you don’t need \setupinterlinespace when you use \switchtobodyfont is that \setupinterlinespace is already called by \switchtobodyfont.
Another thing which shouldn’t be forgotten is that \switchtobodyfont controls and changes the sizes for \tfa etc.
Wolfgang
To summarize this, and what I've learned from others on this list over the last week or two, I've updated the wiki page http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Font_Switching It's a pretty substantial change, so I hope someone knowledgeable will look at it and make sure it's right. I'm trying to find ways to express the fact that, as I understand it, there are two distinct concepts of "current font" in effect at any given time: 1) the bodyfont, which is set by \setupbodyfont or \switchtobodyfont 2) the "effective" font (is there a more standard term for this?) which is changed by \tfa, \ss, etc. \tfa etc. change the effective font based on what the bodyfont is. Anything that changes the bodyfont, such as \switchtobodyfont, also affects the linespacing. Just changing the effective font does not affect the linespacing. Changing the bodyfont changes the effective font. Does that give an accurate picture? Thanks, Lars