Re: to obtain glyphs in marvosym.pfb

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On Jan 4, 2008 12:25 PM, Yvon Henel <yvon.henel@orange.fr> wrote:
> hello all
>
> <summary of previous episodes>
> I begin to be able to use utopia-expert fonts thanks to the fourier tricks
> located in the different type-*.enc.
> My previous work with TeXfont has not been entirely useless for it has helped
> me to understand what I needed to use the available material which gives
> access to utopia-expert.
>
> I would seize the opportunity to thank all the people who made available  the
> howtos on ConTeXt, the wiki and so on. And also those who answered my first
> questions on this list, even if I choose not to follow all their
> recommendations ;-) To say the truth I've already devoted the last three days
> in learning how to use ConTeXt and cannot envisage to swap to LuaTeX before
> some time.
> </summary of previous episodes>
>
> But alas I've got a new problem which I state hereafter:
>
> I've tried this:
> \definesymbol [Telefon][\getglyph{umvs}{\char84}]
> because umvs.tfm is in the marvosym directory
> but it doesn't work.
> I've also tried marvosym (because there is a marvosym.pfb) instead of umvs but
> to no avail.

You need to provide tha tfm file name, not pfb, but there already
exists a module which does that.

\usesymbols[mvs]
\setupsymbolset[martinvogel 2]
\symbol[Telephone]

See and the corrosponding source file (symb-mvs.tex)
    http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Symbols/mvs

Mojca
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