List of special characters?

List of special characters?

[cormullion]

Is there a list of special characters anywhere (eg \percent,  
\upperleftsingle6quote, etc) ? I'm trying to insert a "|", at the  
moment, but I can't find a list...

Re: List of special characters?

[Taco Hoekwater]

cormullion@mac.com wrote:
> Is there a list of special characters anywhere (eg \percent,  
> \upperleftsingle6quote, etc) ? I'm trying to insert a "|", at the  
> moment, but I can't find a list...

I don't know if there is a list out there somewhere by a user, but
there is no 'official' one that I know of. Sounds like you are
looking for \textbar (found by grepping for \definecharacter in
the ConTeXt sources).

Best, Taco

Re: List of special characters?

[pete.boardman]

On 2006-12-25, at 10:46.0, Taco Hoekwater wrote:

> cormullion@mac.com wrote:
>> Is there a list of special characters anywhere (eg \percent,
>> \upperleftsingle6quote, etc) ? I'm trying to insert a "|", at the
>> moment, but I can't find a list...
>
> I don't know if there is a list out there somewhere by a user, but
> there is no 'official' one that I know of. Sounds like you are
> looking for \textbar (found by grepping for \definecharacter in
> the ConTeXt sources).

Thanks Taco - textbar is indeed the one. I'll do some more searching  
and find the rest. But a list sounds like a nice thing to have...

Re: List of special characters?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 12/25/06, pete.boardman@pobox.com wrote:
> On 2006-12-25, at 10:46.0, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
>
> > cormullion@mac.com wrote:
> >> Is there a list of special characters anywhere (eg \percent,
> >> \upperleftsingle6quote, etc) ? I'm trying to insert a "|", at the
> >> moment, but I can't find a list...
...
> Thanks Taco - textbar is indeed the one. I'll do some more searching
> and find the rest. But a list sounds like a nice thing to have...

There's a file contextnames.txt in the ConTeXt tree, see
    http://source.contextgarden.net/context/data/contextnames.txt
Or a html version of it on
    http://pub.mojca.org/tex/enco/contextlist/contextnames.html
- sorry, I should find a better place for it. However, there's only
the most common name listed (some glyphs have synonyms and they're not
collected there).

If you have any comments or suggestions, feel free to tell them.

Moca

Re: List of special characters?

[cormullion]

I'm really struggling to get this working... I've got some keywords  
which i want to mark in the text with a special style:

--
\starttext
\usetypescript[adobekb][\defaultencoding]
\setupbodyfont[pos,9pt]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\define[1]\Keyword{%
	{\startcolor[darkgreen]\bf{#1}\stopcolor}}


\chapter{Introduction}
\Keyword{if}

blah blah blah blah blah

\Keyword{for}

blah blah blah
--

This works great. But then I've got the following keywords:

# ! | \ @ ^ + - * /  %

Of these, i can get half of them to work:

--
\Keyword{\#}
\Keyword{\percent}
\Keyword{\&}
\Keyword{\backslash}
\Keyword{\@}
\Keyword{/}
--

but i can't get any of the the remaining ones ( ! | ^ + - *  ) to.  
Any suggestions would be very welcome!

I was then going to go on to add an indexing command:

\define[1]\Keyword{%
	{\startcolor[darkgreen]\bf{#1}\stopcolor}
	 \index{#1}}

but this wasn't working either...

Help!

Re: List of special characters?

[Mojca Miklavec]

On 12/28/06, cormullion@mac.com wrote:
>
> This works great. But then I've got the following keywords:
>
> # ! | \ @ ^ + - * /  %

Just copied from Aditya's code :)

\letterhash, \#
\letterexclamationmark
\letterbar
\letterbackslash
\letterat
\letterhat
\letterslash
\letterpercent, \%
\letterless
\lettermore
\letterampersand, \&
\letteropenbrace, \{
\letterclosebrace, \}
etc.

Mojca

Re: List of special characters?

[cormullion]

On 2006-12-28, at 13:15.0, Mojca Miklavec wrote:

> On 12/28/06, cormullion@mac.com wrote:
>>
>> This works great. But then I've got the following keywords:
>>
>> # ! | \ @ ^ + - * /  %
>
> Just copied from Aditya's code :)
>
> \letterhash, \#
> \letterexclamationmark
> \letterbar
> \letterbackslash
> \letterat
> \letterhat
> \letterslash
> \letterpercent, \%
> \letterless
> \lettermore
> \letterampersand, \&
> \letteropenbrace, \{
> \letterclosebrace, \}

Thanks - they all work great!

A worthy addition to the manual...?!  :-)

Re: List of special characters?

[Idris Samawi Hamid]

On Thu, 28 Dec 2006 07:00:07 -0700, <cormullion@mac.com> wrote:

>> Just copied from Aditya's code
>>
>> \letterhash, \#
>> \letterexclamationmark
>> \letterbar
>> \letterbackslash
>> \letterat
>> \letterhat
>> \letterslash
>> \letterpercent, \%
>> \letterless
>> \lettermore
>> \letterampersand, \&
>> \letteropenbrace, \{
>> \letterclosebrace, \}
> Thanks - they all work great!
> A worthy addition to the manual...?!

At least some mention should be made on the wiki (if it's already there  
please tell us where)...

Best
Idris

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Department of Philosophy
Colorado State University
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Re: List of special characters?

[cormullion]

I've just discovered the command \showcharacters. It's not in the  
manuals, but useful for showing some of the characters available.