4.2.1 Families

To facilitate easy and flexible use of multiple fonts, pll contains font families. A font family is a set of four fonts identified by a name. A font family is defined by =make_font_family. The four fonts grouped together in a family are those fonts to be associated with commands =roman, =bold, =italic and =mono when this family is loaded using command =font_family. For instance,

=make_font_family("arial","Arial.ttf","ArialBold.ttf",\
                  "ArialItalic.ttf","Courier.ttf")
=make_font_family("times","Times.ttf","TimesBold.ttf",\
                  "TimesItalic.ttf","Courier.ttf")

=font_family("arial")

=slide Fonts
=par To put it very {=bold boldly} - and from \
  an arial point of view:
=item In {=italic Italy}, the {=mono mono}-cycle \
  is quite {=roman romantic}.
=par And for those who still don't get it, I repeat \
  it one more time:
=font_family("times")
=item In {=italic Italy}, the {=mono mono}-cycle \
  is quite {=roman romantic}.

Note that,

=roman is activated automatically when =font_family is issued.
Commands =rm, =bf, =it and =tt are identical to (but easier to write than) =roman, =bold, =italic and =mono.

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