Re: Easy insertion of Unicode symbols?

[cormullion@mac.com]

On 2007-01-03, at 20:01.0, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

>> 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.
>
> The symbol set "was" (Roland Waldi's symbols AKA wasysym) contains
> even more astronomic symbols; check which fit your needs better.
> "was" wasn't mentioned on the symbols page until now, but comes with
> the distribution.

Thanks. I'll try to get this working too!

It will be something like this, i expect:

\usesymbols[was]
\showsymbolset[astronomy]

only this doesn't work... :-)

I really appreciate the help of you guys - steep learning curves  
etc ..... !