* \definesymbol vs. \definecharacter
@ 2002-04-12 21:39 Patrick Gundlach
2002-04-13 18:26 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Patrick Gundlach @ 2002-04-12 21:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
Hi,
what is the difference between \definesymbol and \definecharacter? I mean
the semantic difference. Would the copyright (©) sign be a symbol or rather
a character?
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Patrick Gundlach
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2002-04-12 21:39 \definesymbol vs. \definecharacter Patrick Gundlach
@ 2002-04-13 18:26 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2002-04-13 18:26 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ntg-context
At 11:39 PM 4/12/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>what is the difference between \definesymbol and \definecharacter? I mean
>the semantic difference. Would the copyright (©) sign be a symbol or rather
>a character?
characters are associated to a font and switch with fonts, symbols can be
anything
the copyright symbol, can be both; in the default char encoding file, we
can map
copyright -> \symbol[copyrightsymbol]
and other encodings vectors can then do things like:
copyright -> some char
in that case the default is a symbol, but the rest a glyph from the font file
Hans
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