From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32459 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: cormullion@mac.com Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Easy insertion of Unicode symbols? Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:26:18 +0000 Message-ID: <4955BC73-DBEE-471D-BF6C-9E348E85CC62@mac.com> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167845217 25361 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 17:26:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 17:26:57 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 03 18:26:54 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 1H29t5-0000M5-Fh for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 18:26:51 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C901FF87; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:24:09 +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 28776-09-11; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:24:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6797B1FED0; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:24:03 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D43CE1FEE4 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:23:59 +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 28776-09-10 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:23:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from proof.pobox.com (proof.pobox.com [207.106.133.28]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A40F1FEC2 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 18:23:54 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from proof (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proof.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 15F282B3B0 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:26:57 -0500 (EST) Original-Received: from [192.168.0.3] (dyn-62-56-70-52.dslaccess.co.uk [62.56.70.52]) by proof.sasl.smtp.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3B9A888F for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 12:26:49 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) 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:32459 Archived-At: 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... :-) thanks again!