From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: how to insert symbols into document?
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 13:51:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5532453E.9040003@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <freemail.20150418132154.87858.1@fmxmldata03.freemail.hu>
On 4/18/2015 1:21 PM, Csikos Bela wrote:
> Wolfgang Schuster írta:
>>
>>> Am 13.04.2015 um 01:29 schrieb Csikos Bela:
>
> LONG CUT - See previous messages
>
> Otared, Wolfgang:
>
> Thank you for your suggestions.
>
>> The symbols in the file symb-imp-mis.mkiv are loaded by default because context uses
>> them for the itemise environment but a few of them have to be enabled before you can
>> use them and even then you need a font which contains them, e.g. DejaVu.
>>
>> %%%% begin example
>> \setupbodyfont[dejavu]
>>
>> \setupsymbolset[text]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \starttabulate[|l|c|]
>> \NC \bf Name \NC \bf Symbol \NC\NR
>> \TB
>> \NC bullet \NC \symbol [bullet] \NC\NR
>> \NC dash \NC \symbol [dash] \NC\NR
>> \NC star \NC \symbol [star] \NC\NR
>> \NC triangle \NC \symbol [triangle] \NC\NR
>> \NC circle \NC \symbol [circle] \NC\NR
>> \NC square \NC \symbol [square] \NC\NR
>> \NC diamond \NC \symbol [diamond] \NC\NR
>> \TB
>> \NC blacktriangle \NC \symbol [blacktriangle] \NC\NR
>> \NC blacksquare \NC \symbol [blacksquare] \NC\NR
>> \NC blackdiamond \NC \symbol [blackdiamond] \NC\NR
>> \TB
>> \NC 1 \NC \symbol [1] \NC\NR
>> \NC 2 \NC \symbol [2] \NC\NR
>> \NC 3 \NC \symbol [3] \NC\NR
>> \NC 4 \NC \symbol [4] \NC\NR
>> \NC 5 \NC \symbol [5] \NC\NR
>> \NC 6 \NC \symbol [6] \NC\NR
>> \NC 7 \NC \symbol [7] \NC\NR
>> \NC 8 \NC \symbol [8] \NC\NR
>> \stoptabulate
>>
>> \stoptext
>> %%%% end example
>
> OK, I see that neither the default font nor Tex Gyre Pagella has black diamod symbol, therefore it can't be shown.
>
>> When you need characters like the mentioned losenge you should better look for a font
>> which contains it and create a new typeface for it or set a fallback font which add the
>> characters to the main font of your document.
>
> Before answering I wanted to find out how to make this fallback: Using a given font
> and fall back to only one (or a few) specific characters in another font. For example
> using Tex Gyre Pagella and fall back to Dejavu's black diamond, but not to any other
> characters.
>
> To learn how to do this, in the last few days I read most of (if not all) the related pages on
> the wiki site, and browsed the indicated pdf documents too. Unfortunately I find the wiki
> pages confusing, and I couldn't find out how to solve the problem yet, but I did not want
> to wait longer with the answer. I will study further the docs.
search for 'fallbacks' in the test suite
(you can have fallback ranges but also individual characters)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-04-18 11:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-04-12 23:29 Csikos Bela
2015-04-13 4:15 ` Otared Kavian
2015-04-13 11:14 ` Csikos Bela
2015-04-13 12:04 ` Otared Kavian
2015-04-13 20:51 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-04-18 11:21 ` Csikos Bela
2015-04-18 11:43 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-04-23 14:26 ` Csikos Bela
2015-04-18 11:51 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2015-04-18 14:09 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2015-04-18 14:53 ` Hans Hagen
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