Re: astronomy symbols

["Wolfgang Werners-Lucchini" <wwl@musensturm.de>]

Hallo Wolfgang,

> > I can not produce astronomy symbols.
> 
> % Unicode Fonts: http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/
> %
> % the font for the symbols is hardcoded but as we have in mkiv
> fonts
> % with more symbols a command to change the font would make sense
> 
> \definefontsynonym [UnicodeSymbols] [name:unicodesymbols]
> 
> \def\UnicodeSymbol#1{\getglyph{UnicodeSymbols}{\utfchar{#1}}}
> 
> \startsymbolset [miscellaneoussymbols]
> 
>      \definesymbol[blacktelephone][\UnicodeSymbol{"260E}]
>      \definesymbol[whitetelephone][\UnicodeSymbol{"260F}]
> 
>      \definesymbol[mercury]       [\UnicodeSymbol{"263F}]
>      \definesymbol[earth]         [\UnicodeSymbol{"2641}]
>      \definesymbol[jupiter]       [\UnicodeSymbol{"2643}]
>      \definesymbol[saturn]        [\UnicodeSymbol{"2644}]
>      \definesymbol[uranus]        [\UnicodeSymbol{"2645}]
>      \definesymbol[neptune]       [\UnicodeSymbol{"2646}]
>      \definesymbol[pluto]         [\UnicodeSymbol{"2647}]
> 
> \stopsymbolset
> 
> Wolfgang

It is good to know, that there is an alternative.
I will try it!

But what is wrong with my code? Why does it not work?

Wolfgang

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