From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/76636 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Zapf Dingbats font Date: Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:01:08 +0200 Message-ID: <4FCC6B44.4070303@wxs.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338796888 2478 80.91.229.3 (4 Jun 2012 08:01:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 08:01:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alfredo Catalina To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Jun 04 10:01:25 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SbSE7-0004Sw-Gn for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:01:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FE1101E2; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:01:22 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id db9GhQJJpMl3; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:01:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51ED5101DF; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:01:21 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC804101DF for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:01:19 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id bh4y4GMqIEJE for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:01:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter3-til.mf.surf.net (filter3-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.219]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 63A3C101DD for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:01:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter3-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q5481Bqe009149 for ; Mon, 4 Jun 2012 10:01:17 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 4678-1713362 for multiple; Mon, 04 Jun 2012 10:01:06 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 06Hi81bXL - 4e46c4f892c8 - 20120604 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.219 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:76636 Archived-At: On 3-6-2012 09:04, Alfredo Catalina wrote: > Ok, thanks Luigi. > > This is how I sorted it out, hope it may help someone. It looks like I > should write a typescript and a symbol definition file, but I new to this > and don't know how to do it yet. > > This is a workaround for the meantime: > > - Download the free True Type font "Zapf Dingbats BT" from > http://www.ufonts.com/fonts/zapf-dingbats-bt.html > - You should have got the file ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf or an EXE > file -an installer- > - In windows 7 it may be installed by clicking "install" -context menu, > right mouse click- > - Generate Context font database: > > mtxrun --script fonts --reload > > - Check it's been read: > > mtxrun --script fonts --list --all --pattern=zapf* > > - You should have several lines like "zapfdingbatsbt > zapfdingbatsitcbybtregular > c:/windows/fonts/ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf" > - Finally this is how I get the characters I need: > > \definefont[zapfdingbats][ufonts.com_zapf-dingbats-bt-2.ttf at 10pt] > > \starttext > > Testing: {\zapfdingbats \char109} %shadowed white circle > > \stoptext in the distrubution from the contextgarden \definefont[zapfdingbats][ZapfDingbats] should work as well Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________