[NTG-context] Re: Fwd: Re: x mark symbol and general symbol guide

[Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@flump.de>]

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Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2024, 18:31:10 CET schrieb Wolfgang Schuster:
> Gerion Entrup schrieb am 09.01.2024 um 16:21:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have to come back to that topic, since it seems not to work.
> > The said source code produces just the text "times" and "check" for me
> > (see 1.pdf). I also tried:
> >
> > ```
> > \usesymbols[fontawesome]
> >
> > \starttext
> > 	\showsymbolset[fontawesome-solid]
> > \stoptext
> > ```
> > and get a list of symbols that do not belong to fontawesome (see 2.pdf).
> >
> > I also tried to find the symbol file directly in the context
> > distribution and found:
> > tex/texmf-context/tex/context/base/mkiv/symb-imp-fontawesome.mkiv
> >
> > However, most parts are commented out there, one of the few remaining
> > symbols is wheelchair. However, when using that, I just got the string
> > _378 (3.pdf). Source code:
> >
> > ```
> > \usesymbols[fontawesome]
> >
> > \startTEXpage[offset=1pt]
> > 	\symbol[fontawesome][wheelchair]
> > \stopTEXpage
> > ```
> >
> > Is there a problem with my installation?
> > Additional output:
> > ```
> > % mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern='fontawesome'
> > identifier                 familyname           fontname                    filename                                                             subfont   instances
> >
> > fontawesome                fontawesome          fontawesome                 FontAwesome.otf
> > fontawesome6brands         fontawesome6brands   fontawesome6brandsregular   /usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/Font Awesome 6 Brands-Regular-400.otf
> > fontawesome6brandsnormal   fontawesome6brands   fontawesome6brandsregular   /usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/Font Awesome 6 Brands-Regular-400.otf
> > fontawesome6freenormal     fontawesome6free     fontawesome6freesolid       /usr/share/fonts/fontawesome/Font Awesome 6 Free-Solid-900.otf
> > fontawesomenormal          fontawesome          fontawesome                 FontAwesome.otf
> > fontawesomeregular         fontawesome          fontawesome                 FontAwesome.otf
> > ```
> 
> The symbols expect version 5 of fontawesome but you have version 6.
> 
> I guess it's time to switch to the new version of the fonts which can be 
> done by replacing 5 (file:fontawsome5...) with 6 (file:fontawsome6...) 
> in the following lines in symb-imp-fontawesome.mkiv
> 
> \definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeBrands] 
> [file:fontawesome5brandsregular400.otf]
> \definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeRegular] 
> [file:fontawesome5freeregular400.otf]
> \definefontsynonym [FontAwesomeSolid] [file:fontawesome5freesolid900.otf]
> 
> Wolfgang

My system awesome font is version 6 but isn't the one bundled with
ConTeXt version 5 (FontAwesome.otf)? This one:
tex/texmf/fonts/data/fonticons/fontawesome/FontAwesome.otf: OpenType font data

I would assume that ConTeXt is using the bundled file by default.

Gerion

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