Re: Easy insertion of Unicode symbols?

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

cormullion@mac.com wrote:
> On 2007-01-02, at 22:00.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:
>
>   
>> Am 2006-12-31 um 15:59 schrieb cormullion@mac.com:
>>
>>     
>>> I need to insert a few Unicode symbols...(Just the symbols for the
>>> solar system planets)... Is this going to be easy - doable inside
>>> ConTeXt with a few preparatory mystic runes, or will it require
>>> running scripts, moving files around, etc...?
>>>
>>> The wiki suggests:
>>>
>>> Use \enableregime[utf] in order to be able to typeset in unicode
>>> under ConTeXt.
>>>
>>> But is it as simple as it looks?
>>>       
>> Have a deeper look at the wiki:
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols
>> http://homepage.mac.com/atl/tex/
>> http://source.contextgarden.net/symb-uni.tex
>>
>> Of course you need the fonts containing the symbols in place...
>>     
>
> Thanks! I'm looking for a level 1 solution (ie one that doesn't  
> require me to go into the Terminal and start typing commands and  
> moving files). Adam's document was interesting but looked a bit too  
> daunting - a level 2 solution. Nothing wrong with that, just that  
> I've got to find the time and skill to do it.
>
> The symbol set reference was great - the planet symbols are  
> accessible in:
>
> \usesymbols[mvs]
> \showsymbolset[astronomic]
>
> so I may not have to go to a unicode-font at all.
>
> I just wish there was some way of accessing all the standard fonts  
> and symbols that are already a few millimetres away on the hard  
> disk... :-)
>   
later this year when we go to native open type with on the fly font 
composition, fallback etc etc etc

Hans

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