[dev-context] [NTG-context] Side figure bug in mkiv?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Taco Hoekwater schrieb am 19.07.2019 um 16:20:
>> On 19 Jul 2019, at 16:03, Alan Braslau <braslau.list at comcast.net> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, 19 Jul 2019 14:39:11 +0200
>> Taco Hoekwater <taco at elvenkind.com> wrote:
>>
>>> but that is quite silly. Is there some official command to ‘fix' this
>>> issue?
>> \bold{ bla bla}
> Because of the streaming nature of xml processing via lua, that is
> not really an option for me, but even if I could make that work for me,
> I do not like having to write
>
>    context(‘{‘)
>    ...
>    context(‘}‘)
>
> in a cld file. To me, that feels like it sort of defeats the purpose.
>
> I can easily define a command, of course, like this:
>
>    \def\switchalternativeonly[#1]{\getvalue{#1}\relax}

I had the same idea because we have a \switchstyleonly command.

\unexpanded\def\switchalternativeonly[#1]%
   {\font_helpers_set_current_font_alternative{#1}}

> and then
>
>    context.start()
>    context.switchalternativeonly({myvariable})
>    lxml.flush(t)
>    context.stop()
>
> I was just wondering if there was a nice pre-cooked solution somewhere.

When you don't mind using bold, italic etc. to change the font style.

\starttext
xx {\applyalternativestyle{bold} xx} xx
\stoptext

Wolfgang