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

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

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Am Donnerstag, 11. Januar 2024, 15:56:32 CET schrieb Gerion Entrup:
> Am Dienstag, 9. Januar 2024, 21:17:57 CET schrieb Hans Hagen:
> > On 1/9/2024 8:31 PM, Gerion Entrup wrote:
> > 
> > > 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.
> > It's not our hobby to keep up with font versions and changing names so 
> > we depend on users to signal that. Also, with fonts you never know what 
> > updated fonts will break.
> > 
> > In a next upload we'll define a list of names [5-9] so that we're more 
> > future proof.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Sure, it was my interest to understand, if the error lays in my
> installation or is due to the predefined files. Especially, since I did
> not manage to display a single symbol of FontAwesome at all, not even
> the one that seems to be explicitly defined.
> 
> For me, it is not relevant at all, in which version the font is.
> My main interest is to get an \xmark symbol.

FontAwesome works with the new version 2024.01.18 (the times symbol is
not present but an xmark symbol directly). Thank you!

Gerion

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