Characters words and fonts

— Tutorials —	— How-to Guides —
A tutorial is an experience that takes place under the guidance of a tutor. A tutorial is always learning-oriented. Tutorial Font styles, style alternatives, and switch commands Mnemonic font switches Emphasizing text Font sizes Typeface selection from those distributed with ConTeXt Capitalizing or small-capitalizing words Underlining, striking through, and overlining Subscripting and superscripting Customize your highlighting commands	How-to guides are directions that guide the reader through a problem or towards a result. How-to guides are goal-oriented. How-to build a font family (how-to select and customize sets of fonts, including with optical size options) Use any fonts you want Variable fonts OpenType features and ligatures Emoji and symbols How-to define the set of font sizes and the line spacing How-to use typeset initials (dropped caps, dropcaps) with \placeinitial and \setupinitial Combining characters (and older Faking characters). Visual debugging of typefaces, fonts and character level formatting Examples of font installation and of typescripts Collections of tips and tricks Get examples from s-fonts- files, that you can compile and/or use as module for own fonts (with lua font goodies) Wiki pages in Fonts category
— Explanation —	— Reference —
Explanation is a discursive treatment of a subject, that permits reflection. Explanation is understanding-oriented. Handling fonts in ConTeXt, presentation from Willi Egger, for ConTEXt-Meeting 15th (2021), 38 invaluable slides Font installation example: IBM Plex, article by Taco Hoekwater and Pavneet Arora (2018) a version is now available in the distribution, see the source browser. What defines the size in a font (2018) Rules – rules bounded to the typeset text (2022) Fonts out of ConTeXt – Almost everything about Fonts, processing and use (2016) Reference manual (2013) Fonts in LuaTeX	Reference guides are technical descriptions of the machinery and how to operate it. Reference material is information-oriented. Command categories Fonts Symbols Rules

TODO: the rest of the basic elements to be linked and organized here. Delete old page Characters words and fonts/Font Switching (See: To-Do List)

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