On 2013–02–07 Devendra Ghate wrote:

I want to use truly huge (40pt) fonts for chapter numbers.
In my latex code, I used

\newfont{\chapterNumber}{pplr9d scaled 7000}

>From the context manual, I thought that

\definebodyfont [11pt] [rm]  [ tfH=cmr12 scaled 7000]

should do it. Though the above code doesn't throw any errors,
it doesn't do anything. What am I doing wrong?

*MWE*

\definebodyfont [11pt] [rm]  [ tfH=cmr12 scaled 7000]

\definebodyfont
  [default]
  [tfH=cmr12 scaled 7000]

works for me. Or you can use:

\definefont
  [TitleFont]
  [Serif at 40pt]

\starttext
  \TitleFont FooBar
\stoptext


Marco

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