[latex3-commits] [git/LaTeX3-latex3-latex2e] nfssalias: document "alias" size function (f5160011)

[Frank Mittelbach]

Repository : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e
On branch  : nfssalias
Link       : https://github.com/latex3/latex2e/commit/f51600115f2d3d9078982864533780d721555dff

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commit f51600115f2d3d9078982864533780d721555dff
Author: Frank Mittelbach <frank.mittelbach at latex-project.org>
Date:   Tue Oct 15 13:55:58 2019 +0200

    document "alias" size function


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f51600115f2d3d9078982864533780d721555dff
 base/doc/fntguide.tex | 9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/base/doc/fntguide.tex b/base/doc/fntguide.tex
index f3231a81..65636bec 100644
--- a/base/doc/fntguide.tex
+++ b/base/doc/fntguide.tex
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 \author{\copyright~Copyright 1995--2019, \LaTeX3 Project Team.\\
    All rights reserved.}
  
-\date{July 2019}
+\date{October 2019}
  
 \begin{document}
  
@@ -1214,6 +1214,13 @@ Tries to load a font from a different font shape declaration given by
 \item[ssub]
 Silent variant of `sub', only loggings.
  
+\item[alias]
+\NEWfeature{2019/10/15}
+Same as `ssub' but with a different logging message. Intended for
+cases where the substitution is only done to change the name, e.g.,
+going from \texttt{regular} series to the official name \texttt{m}. In
+that case given a warning that some shape is not found is not correct.
+ 
 \item[subf]
 Like the empty function but issues a warning that it has to substitute
 the external font \m{fontarg} because the desired font shape was not