From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/32474 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 21:25:38 +0000 Message-ID: <4EAAD5EC-9120-40FC-A6D5-2DDC74AC33F0@mac.com> References: <4955BC73-DBEE-471D-BF6C-9E348E85CC62@mac.com> 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 1167859664 2615 80.91.229.12 (3 Jan 2007 21:27:44 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 21:27:44 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 03 22:27:43 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 1H2De9-0002CD-N7 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 03 Jan 2007 22:27:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 038D41FFF1; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:24:57 +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 09135-02; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:24:57 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 84B291FFA3; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:23:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6086A1FFF1 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:23:09 +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 09144-01-2 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:23:06 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from proof.pobox.com (proof.pobox.com [207.106.133.28]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D55EA1FFA0 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 22:23:05 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from proof (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by proof.pobox.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2226A28D87 for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:26:10 -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 6BD6DAAFDD for ; Wed, 3 Jan 2007 16:26:06 -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:32474 Archived-At: 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 ..... !