Thanks Alan for the suggestion, I’ll try it. Doing more research I figured out that \definefont defined such simple command at the expense of eventually repeating the font name and features. \definefont[SmallFont][name:EBGaramond*base,xxicentury at \SmallFontSize] % \SmallFont works I was also a bit surprised with \tf<size> behaviour when used inside a scope of another one leading to 2 different sizes in output, as in {\tfd Foo {\tfx Bar1}} {\tfx Bar2} Baz. For the sake of knowledge I would be interested in knowing if this is expected eventually. Thanks a lot Joseph From: Alan BRASLAU Sent: ‎Sunday‎, ‎June‎ ‎12‎, ‎2016 ‎5‎:‎19‎ ‎PM To: josephcanedo@gmail.com Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl On Thu, 9 Jun 2016 21:47:07 +0000 wrote:

Dear all,

In a simple document using only 1 font but with different sizes what are the easiest switch commands to change font size locally ? I am aware of \tfa, \tfx etc …. but they do not seem to size in absolute size but rather relatively to current font size. In the following MWE :

\starttext

{\tfd Foo {\tfx Bar1}} {\tfx Bar2} Baz.

\stoptext

Bar1 is typeset much larger than Bar2.

I’d look to write something like but don’t know who to get \BigSize and \SmallSize defined (and have Bar1 and Bar2 of same size) :

{\BigSize Foo {\SmallSize Bar1}} {\SmallSize Bar2} Baz.

Many thanks for any hint.

Perhaps (untested): \definealternativestyle [BigFont] [{\setbodyfont [12pt]}] \definealternativestyle [SmallFont] [{\setbodyfont [8pt]}] \definehighlight [BigSize] [style=BigFont] \definehighlight [SmallSize] [style=SmallFont] \BigSize{Foo \SmallSize{Bar1}} \SmallSize{Bar2} Baz.

It is (very) limited to few words only to reproduce how an old Bible I am trying to typeset (words added in the text to ease the understand were printed in smaller size). Thanks a lot Regards Joseph From: Alan BRASLAU Sent: ‎Monday‎, ‎June‎ ‎13‎, ‎2016 ‎5‎:‎19‎ ‎AM To: josephcanedo@gmail.com Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl On Sun, 12 Jun 2016 16:57:26 +0000 wrote:

I was also a bit surprised with \tf<size> behaviour when used inside a scope of another one leading to 2 different sizes in output, as in

{\tfd Foo {\tfx Bar1}} {\tfx Bar2} Baz.

For the sake of knowledge I would be interested in knowing if this is expected eventually.

Yes, and this appears to me to be the most logical behavior. By the way, the use of such "low-level" font changes is not very good style in any case, and should be limited to special cases. In particular, this will not export well in tagged output to xml, for example, which is why I suggest the use of styles and "highlight". Alan