From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: defined symbols - question/feature suggestion
Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:21:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4D5E9C7D.4040306@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60157C18-F6B8-4EE0-BAF2-C9D71EEFA370@awi.de>
On 18-2-2011 10:39, Florian Wobbe wrote:
> Hi Hans,
>
> in symb-mis.mkiv you define most symbols with \mathematics. I don't know why you take these symbols from the math font. Just in case the symbol does not exist in the regular font, I would guess.
>
> Problem is only, that you will loose most symbols when switching the math font to something else than computer-modern (I tested with euler and cambria). BTW: I wonder how many contexters use modern for math...
>
> Anyway it appears most fonts have geometric shapes and common symbols and dingbats. So I end up redefining the symbols:
>
> \definesymbol [bullet] [\textbullet]
> \definesymbol [dash] [--]
> \definesymbol [star] [\char"2734]
> \definesymbol [triangle] [\char"25B6]
> \definesymbol [square] [\char"25A0]
> \definesymbol [diamond] [\char"25C6]
> \definesymbol [checkmark] [\char"2713]
>
> Also it looks nicer when you use item symbols matching the text font.
>
> Maybe you would consider this and prefer symbols from the text font rather than those from the math font and keep \mathematics only as fall back should the glyph be unavailable.
It is on the agenda to look into this. These definitions relate to the
fact that not all fonts had/have such characters. Also, textbullet is
normally way too small for my taste. References like \char"25B6 are
likely to fail on most fonts
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-02-18 16:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-02-18 9:39 Florian Wobbe
2011-02-18 9:52 ` Mojca Miklavec
2011-02-18 13:50 ` C.
2011-02-19 19:28 ` Johannes Kuester
2011-02-19 23:24 ` C.
2011-02-19 23:40 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-20 7:41 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2011-02-20 11:08 ` Johannes Kuester
2011-02-18 16:21 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-02-18 17:30 ` Hans Hagen
2011-02-27 10:09 ` Florian Wobbe
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