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Re: Font changes

From: Bruce Smith <bruce@wolfram.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 1996 10:49:33 -0700
Message-Id: <v02130512adf8794a92a3@[199.182.131.141]>
To: rminer@geom.umn.edu
Cc: dsr@w3.org, w3c-math-erb@w3.org
>In particular, I need to put some machinery in place to handle font
>changes, so that one can render vectors in bold, etc.  One option is
>to add an "internal schema" such as
>
>        (mfont "font data" args)
>
>where "font data" would be things like "Bold", "Upright",
>"BoldUpright" and so on.  The effect would be to override the default
>font for (mi ... ) entries in the scope of the (mfont ...).

This sounds best to me too -- I think it will be compatible with
whatever we end up with. I think it's better for "args" to be only
one argument -- otherwise you have to decide how several of them
are supposed to be arranged.
Received on Thursday, 27 June 1996 13:49:08 UTC

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