Re: How to use musical symbols from a font

[Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky <yatskovsky@gmail.com>]

Hi,

Thanks, Willi, for the idea, but I cannot get it to work. My version of 
the script

\starttext
\definefontsynonym[Wingdings][Wingdings.ttf]
\definesymbol[box][\getglyph{Wingdings}{\char113}]
%\def\Check%
%   {{\tfa\symbol[box]}}

\symbol[box]
\stoptext


gives the following error (I have Wingdings.ttf in my Windows/Fonts folder):


!define font    : forced type ttf of Wingdings not found
!define font    : font with name Wingdings is not found
!define font    : unknown font Wingdings, loading aborted
! Font \thedefinedfont=Wingdings.ttf at 12pt not loadable: metric data 
not found or bad.
<to be read again>
                    \relax
\symbolicsizedfont ...cale \scaledfontsize \relax
                                                   \thedefinedfont
\getglyph #1#2->{\symbolicfont {#1}
                                    \doifnumberelse {#2}\char \donothing #2}
\dodosymbol ...bol \csname \??ss :#1:#2\endcsname
                                                   \relax }\relax
\donormalsymbol ...bol \redosymbol \currentsymbol
                                                   \fi \fi
<to be read again>
                    \stoptext
l.8 \stoptext

?

>
> The approach to using symbols could be done along the following line:
>
>
> \definefontsynonym[Dingbats][uzdr]
> \definesymbol[box][\getglyph{Dingbats}{\char113}]
> \def\Check%
>     {{\tfa\symbol[box]}}


-- 
Best Regards,
Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
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