scaling symbols

scaling symbols

[Janko Hauser]

Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want
to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like
small figures. Any hints?

TIA,

__Janko Hauser

Re: scaling symbols

[Adam Lindsay]

Janko Hauser said this at Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:58:23 +0200:

>Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want
>to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like
>small figures. Any hints?

Hmm, it depends a bit on how you get these (I assume) Unicode symbols and
fonts.
Note that symb-uni is part of the main distro now, and you probably
should set my earlier version of the file aside.
You could redefine \USymbChar after \usesymbols[uni]:
\def\USymbChar#1#2{%
  \scale[sx=0.8,sy=0.8]{\uchar#1#2}}
\let\USymbCharTwo\USymbChar
\let\USymbCharZapf\USymbChar

(untested, inelegant)
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Re: scaling symbols

[Hans Hagen]

Adam Lindsay wrote:
> Janko Hauser said this at Thu, 31 Mar 2005 21:58:23 +0200:
> 
> 
>>Hello I followed Adams nice way, to include unicode symbols. Now I want
>>to ask, how these can be scaled, so that they can be used more like
>>small figures. Any hints?
> 
> 
> Hmm, it depends a bit on how you get these (I assume) Unicode symbols and
> fonts.
> Note that symb-uni is part of the main distro now, and you probably
> should set my earlier version of the file aside.
> You could redefine \USymbChar after \usesymbols[uni]:
> \def\USymbChar#1#2{%
>   \scale[sx=0.8,sy=0.8]{\uchar#1#2}}
> \let\USymbCharTwo\USymbChar
> \let\USymbCharZapf\USymbChar
> 
> (untested, inelegant)

\startsymbolset[myscaledsymbols]

\definesymbol[MyUniSymbolA][{\scale[sx=.75em,sy=.5cm]]{\uchar{..}{..}}]

\stopsymbolset

....

\symbol[myscaledsymbols][MyUniSymbolA]

Hans


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