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From: Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>
To: Xan <dxpublica@telefonica.net>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: diameter symbol in ConTeXt?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 17:37:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130921173714.244a6db798c38e33617074ab@telefonica.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130921165619.5e896da63d5ad353889cd6c7@telefonica.net>

> On 2013–09–21 Xan wrote:
> 
> > \diameter produces a diameter symbol. What is the equivalent in ConTeXt?
> 
>   ⌀ or \varnothing


Really varnothing is not the same as diameter (see the reference of LaTeX I posted before)

> 
> Have a look at char-def.lua for a list of context names for various
> glyphs. It might make sense to enable the fonts.missing tracker.
> Then ConTeXt warns you that a particular glyph is not available.
> 
>   \enabletrackers [fonts.missing]
> 
> > Is there any compilation of symbols avaliable in ConTeXt?
> 
> Not that I'm aware of. In ConTeXt you have easy access to all
> characters of any font¹. Either input the character directly if it's
> present in the current font or you can create a symbol:
> 
> \definefontsynonym
>   [minion]
>   [name:minionproregular]
> 
> \definesymbol
>   [leaf]
>   [\getnamedglyphdirect
>     {minion}
>     {bullet.010}]
> 
> \starttext
>   Foo \symbol[leaf] Bar
> \stoptext
> 
> Marco
> 



How can I define symbol with unicode equivalent? \diameter really is U+2300 I think.

Thanks,
Xan.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-09-21 15:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-09-21 14:56 Xan
2013-09-21 15:14 ` Marco Patzer
2013-09-21 15:16   ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-21 20:11   ` Hans Hagen
2013-09-21 15:37 ` Xan [this message]
2013-09-21 16:25   ` Marco Patzer
2013-09-21 16:43     ` Aditya Mahajan
2013-09-21 16:48     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2013-09-21 16:38   ` Xan

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