From: Khaled Hosny <khaledhosny@eglug.org>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Missing °C symbol in math mode with dejavu font
Date: Mon, 20 May 2013 23:22:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130520212241.GA13524@khaled-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AADEDB2E-A465-4826-8136-90F61C24675F@gmail.com>
On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 11:13:16PM +0200, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
>
> Am 20.05.2013 um 23:04 schrieb Romain Diss <romain.diss@yahoo.fr>:
>
> > Le lundi 20 mai 2013, Alan BRASLAU a écrit :
> >> On Mon, 20 May 2013 22:29:22 +0200
> >> Romain Diss <romain.diss@yahoo.fr> wrote:
> >>> The °C symbol is missing in math mode with the dejavu font. I thought
> >>> that this should be handled by using the '°' + 'C' symbols instead
> >>> but it is not the case.
> >>> Is that a bug?
> >>> What can I do to get the °C symbol with this font?
> >> With dejavu, A, B, and D all work, but C is missing a symbol.
> >> A 100℃
> >> B 100°C
> >> C $100℃$
> >> D $100°C$
> > The question is: do \unit is supposed to handle this case and automatically
> > switch from C to D if C is missing.
> > If not, how can I tell \unit that C is missing and that I want \unit{celsius}
> > to use D?
>
>
> Hans can add a check for math mode for the symbol:
>
> \unprotect
>
> \unexpanded\def\checkedtextcelsius
> {\ifmmode
> \phys_units_text_celsius
> \else\iffontchar\font"2103\relax
> ℃\else\phys_units_text_celsius
> \fi\fi}
>
> \unexpanded\def\checkedtextfahrenheit
> {\ifmmode
> \phys_units_text_fahrenheit
> \else\iffontchar\font"2109\relax
> ℉\else\phys_units_text_fahrenheit
> \fi\fi}
>
> \protect
My suggestion is to just use \phys_units_text_* always, since the
decomposed, two characters is the preferred form for those two units.
Regards,
Khaled
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-05-20 21:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-05-20 20:29 Romain Diss
2013-05-20 20:57 ` Alan BRASLAU
2013-05-20 21:03 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-20 21:04 ` Romain Diss
2013-05-20 21:13 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-05-20 21:22 ` Khaled Hosny [this message]
2013-05-20 21:36 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-21 8:01 ` Hans Hagen
2013-05-21 8:09 ` Khaled Hosny
2013-05-21 12:01 ` Arthur Reutenauer
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