From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: \definesymbol vs. \definecharacter
Date: Sat, 13 Apr 2002 20:26:42 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020413202407.05649820@server-1> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <02041223395100.10843@levana>
At 11:39 PM 4/12/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>what is the difference between \definesymbol and \definecharacter? I mean
>the semantic difference. Would the copyright (©) sign be a symbol or rather
>a character?
characters are associated to a font and switch with fonts, symbols can be
anything
the copyright symbol, can be both; in the default char encoding file, we
can map
copyright -> \symbol[copyrightsymbol]
and other encodings vectors can then do things like:
copyright -> some char
in that case the default is a symbol, but the rest a glyph from the font file
Hans
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2002-04-12 21:39 Patrick Gundlach
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