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This consist of one or more fontshape-decls having the following form: || ´

fontshape-decl '::=' size-info font-info

size-info '::= "<"' number-or-range '">"'

font-info '::=' [ size-function '"*"' ] '"["' optarg '"]"' fontarg '|' fontarg
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The number-or-range denotes the size or size-range for which this for which this entry apply. If it contains a hyphen char it is a range: lower bound on the left (if missing zero implied), upper bound to the right of hyphen (if missing |&infin#infty;| implied). For ranges upper bound is *NOT* included in the range, lower bound is. 

Examples:    <10>  simple size: 10pt
             <-8>  range: all sizes less than 8pt
             <14.4->  range: all sizes greater or equal 14.4pt

If more than one number-or-range entry follows without any intervening font-info they all share the next font-info.

The size-function if present handles the use of font-info. If not present, the `empty' size-function is assumed.

All size-infos are inspected in the order in which they appear in the font shape declaration. If a size-info matches the requested size its size-function is executed. If |@font| is non-empty afterwards this process stops, otherwise the next size-info is inspected. (See also ||.)

If this process doesn't lead to a non-empty |@font|, {\sf NFSS} tries the nearest simple size.

Implemented functions:

`' (empty)

load external font (in fontarg) at user requested size. If optarg present, used as scale-factor.

s
like the empty one but no terminal warnings, only loggings.

gen

generates external font from mandatory arg followed by the user requested size, eg |<8> <9> <10> gen * cmtt|

sgen

like the `gen' one but no terminal warnings, only loggings.

sub

tries to load font from a different fontshape declaration given by fontarg in form family"/"series"/"shape.

ssub

silent variant of sub, only loggings.

subf

like the empty one, but issues a warning, that it has to substitute the external font fontarg because the desired font shape wasn't available in the requested size.

ssubf

silent variant of subf, only loggings.

fixed

load font as is (disregarding user size) from fontarg. If present optarg denotes the ``at ...pt'' size to be used.

sfixed

silent variant of fixed, only loggings.