Re: [Groff] Re: Adding styles to DESC

[Robert Goulding]

On Jun 11, 2004, at 5:42 AM, Werner LEMBERG wrote:

> > I mean, how often does one, working in, say, Helvetica Medium
> > Italic, want to switch completely to Garamond and preserve the font
> > weight/style at Medium Italic?
>
> All LaTeX users expect this. :-)  Its a natural consequence if you
> handle all font selection parameters independently.

And it's certainly what you *want* to happen if your other family is, 
in fact, a non-Roman alphabet.  I do this all the time with Greek, 
where a .fam GK request or \F(GK escape changes to my Greek fonts for a 
word or a sentence in predominantly English text, which should be in 
the same style as the surrounding text. (It would, of course, be much 
nicer doing this with Unicode, then the family switching - which is 
essentially a hack - wouldn't be necessary).

Robert.

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Robert Goulding
Program in History and Philosophy of Science
University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame IN 46656