Re[2]: Symbols in ConTeXt?

[Giuseppe Bilotta <bourbaki@bigfoot.com>]

Monday, June 25, 2001 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 06:13 PM 6/23/01 +0200, Giuseppe Bilotta wrote:
>>This is probably a stupid question but ... how do I insert symbols
>>like the trademark, copyright symbols etc?

HH> Did you look at the symb-* files? There are several ways to define symbols,
HH> and if things are done all right, they even scale nicely with your fonts,
HH> adapt to style changes etc. [i even extended this a bit recently which will
HH> be in the next beta]

Ok. I will try to replicate the structure of symb-eur and symb-nav
to get textcomp functionality.

>>More in general, is there something like the LaTeX textcomp
>>package, for ConTeXt?

HH> i must admit that i have no cue about what this packages does

It's basically a package that adds all the default glyphs from
the Type1 Standard Encoding (in the form \text<postscriptname>).

>>And finally: along the same line, some LaTeX package whose purpose
>>is the one to "complement" the Computer Modern font files with
>>"sensible" fonts so as to allow the same range of characters as
>>the European Computer Modern fonts, while still using free Type1
>>fonts, use the cyrillic fonts (wn*) or the LaTeX Symbols (lasy)
>>fonts. This means for example that guillemots are found at either
>>position 60, 62 of the cyrillic fonts or at postion 19, 20 of the
>>lasy fonts. Anything of the sort for ConTeXt?

HH> could be handled by symbols too, 

Will try to implement it ...

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta