From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/4878 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Giuseppe Bilotta Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re[2]: Symbols in ConTeXt? Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 11:12:38 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <108475631.20010625111238@bigfoot.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20010625095401.01b55100@server-1> Reply-To: Giuseppe Bilotta NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035395514 29518 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 17:51:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 17:51:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-To: Hans Hagen Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:4878 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:4878 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). >>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 ... -- Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta