Symbols in ConTeXt?

Symbols in ConTeXt?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

This is probably a stupid question but ... how do I insert symbols
like the trademark, copyright symbols etc?

More in general, is there something like the LaTeX textcomp
package, for ConTeXt?

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?

--
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta

Re: Symbols in ConTeXt?

[Hans Hagen]

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?

Did you look at the symb-* files? There are several ways to define symbols,
and if things are done all right, they even scale nicely with your fonts,
adapt to style changes etc. [i even extended this a bit recently which will
be in the next beta]  

>More in general, is there something like the LaTeX textcomp
>package, for ConTeXt?

i must admit that i have no cue about what this packages does

>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?

could be handled by symbols too, 

the main point is "what should be a symbol" [maybe all non
char/numbers/punct] and "what should be a char/glyph in a font"

Hans 
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Re[2]: Symbols in ConTeXt?

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

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<postscriptname>).

>>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 ...

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Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta