From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32464 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Easy insertion of Unicode symbols? Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:08:29 +0100 Message-ID: <459BFF2D.60103@wxs.nl> References: <4955BC73-DBEE-471D-BF6C-9E348E85CC62@mac.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167851587 19457 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 19:13:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 19:13:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 03 20:13:05 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1H2BXk-0001E1-J2 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:12:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D08F2000A; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:10:13 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 02303-06; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:10:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A0A0B1FFEA; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:05:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 672F91FFE8 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:05:52 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 01970-10-3 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:05:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-083-247-100-017.solcon.nl [83.247.100.17]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 25CEC1FFDF for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 20:05:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.101] (unverified [10.100.1.101]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.7b8) with ESMTP id 512 for ; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 20:08:31 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.9 (Windows/20061207) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4955BC73-DBEE-471D-BF6C-9E348E85CC62@mac.com> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:32464 Archived-At: 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 -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------