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authorHans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>2018-03-21 09:47:34 +0100
committerContext Git Mirror Bot <phg42.2a@gmail.com>2018-03-21 09:47:34 +0100
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+++ b/doc/context/sources/general/fonts/fonts/fonts-extensions.tex
@@ -430,6 +430,9 @@ This is a rather special one. First we show a couple of definitions:
\typebuffer \getbuffer
+When you don't want a dimension to change you leave an entry empty, so
+valid entries are for instance: \type {,3,} and \type {1,,}.
+
As usual you apply such a feature as follows:
\starttyping
@@ -475,7 +478,8 @@ A special case is the following:
\typebuffer \getbuffer
-This will make the height and depth the same as the current strut height and depth:
+This will make the height and depth the same as the {\em current} strut height
+and depth:
\startbuffer
\ruledhbox{\definedfont[Serif*default,dimensions-e at 8pt]clipped}
@@ -489,6 +493,10 @@ The dimensions are (in this case) limited:
\startlinecorrection[blank] \dontleavehmode \hpack{\maincolor\inlinebuffer} \stoplinecorrection
+Another special case is \type {dimensions=mono} which will make an characters the
+fonts em|-|width. This is handy when you define font fallbacks where glyphs come
+from a non monospaced font.
+
\stopsection
\startsection[title=Unicoding]