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* Asterisk
@ 2015-06-09  7:21 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
  2015-06-09  7:46 ` Asterisk Philipp A.
  2015-06-09  9:02 ` Asterisk Wolfgang Schuster
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 6+ messages in thread
From: Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. @ 2015-06-09  7:21 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,

how to typeset "centerd asterisk" ("*") in Ctx?

I mean the symbol which is used in the third level of itemization (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations) or which can be typeset by \textasteriskcentered in LaTeX.

(I cannot find the symbol definition in Ctx itemize-command definition (source files) and simple writing "\textasteriskcentered" doesn't work.)

Thank you in advance.

Best regards,

Lukas


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* Re: Asterisk
  2015-06-09  7:21 Asterisk Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
@ 2015-06-09  7:46 ` Philipp A.
  2015-06-09  8:24   ` Asterisk Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
  2015-06-09  9:02 ` Asterisk Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Philipp A. @ 2015-06-09  7:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
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just copy some symbol from here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk#Encodings

and be sure to use a font containing them.

alternatively define a command which temporarily switches to such a font
in, displays the symbol, and switches back.

Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz> schrieb am Di., 9.
Juni 2015 um 09:25 Uhr:

> Hello,
>
> how to typeset "centerd asterisk" ("*") in Ctx?
>
> I mean the symbol which is used in the third level of itemization (
> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations) or which can be typeset by
> \textasteriskcentered in LaTeX.
>
> (I cannot find the symbol definition in Ctx itemize-command definition
> (source files) and simple writing "\textasteriskcentered" doesn't work.)
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Lukas
>
>
> --
> Ing. Lukáš Procházka | mailto:LPr@pontex.cz
> Pontex s. r. o.      | mailto:pontex@pontex.cz | http://www.pontex.cz
> Bezová 1658
> 147 14 Praha 4
>
> Tel: +420 241 096 751
> Fax: +420 244 461 038
>
>
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> the Wiki!
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>
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* Re: Asterisk
  2015-06-09  7:46 ` Asterisk Philipp A.
@ 2015-06-09  8:24   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
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From: Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. @ 2015-06-09  8:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,

could you provide a MWE?

---- A file in UTF-8
\starttext
	% Let's use the default Ctx font
	% What to come here?
\stoptext
----

Lukas


On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 09:46:55 +0200, Philipp A. <flying-sheep@web.de> wrote:

> just copy some symbol from here:
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asterisk#Encodings
>
> and be sure to use a font containing them.
>
> alternatively define a command which temporarily switches to such a font
> in, displays the symbol, and switches back.
>
> Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz> schrieb am Di., 9.
> Juni 2015 um 09:25 Uhr:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> how to typeset "centerd asterisk" ("*") in Ctx?
>>
>> I mean the symbol which is used in the third level of itemization (
>> http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations) or which can be typeset by
>> \textasteriskcentered in LaTeX.
>>
>> (I cannot find the symbol definition in Ctx itemize-command definition
>> (source files) and simple writing "\textasteriskcentered" doesn't work.)
>>
>> Thank you in advance.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Lukas


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147 14 Praha 4

Tel: +420 241 096 751
Fax: +420 244 461 038

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* Re: Asterisk
  2015-06-09  7:21 Asterisk Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
  2015-06-09  7:46 ` Asterisk Philipp A.
@ 2015-06-09  9:02 ` Wolfgang Schuster
  2015-06-09 10:25   ` Asterisk Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
  1 sibling, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2015-06-09  9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: mailing list for ConTeXt users


> Am 09.06.2015 um 09:21 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> how to typeset "centerd asterisk" ("*") in Ctx?
> 
> I mean the symbol which is used in the third level of itemization (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations) or which can be typeset by \textasteriskcentered in LaTeX.
> 
> (I cannot find the symbol definition in Ctx itemize-command definition (source files) and simple writing "\textasteriskcentered" doesn't work.)

The symbols in different itemise levels can be shown with \symbol[1], \symbol[2] etc. but since these numbered symbols can be redefined it is better to use the named symbol to access the star with \symbol[star].

The following example shows a few of the predefined symbols.

\starttext

\starttabulate[|l|c|]
\NC \bf Command                 \NC \bf Symbol           \NC\NR
\TB
\NC \type{\symbol[1]}           \NC \symbol[1]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[2]}           \NC \symbol[2]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[3]}           \NC \symbol[3]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[4]}           \NC \symbol[4]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[5]}           \NC \symbol[5]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[6]}           \NC \symbol[6]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[7]}           \NC \symbol[7]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[8]}           \NC \symbol[8]           \NC\NR
\TB
\NC \type{\symbol[bullet]}      \NC \symbol[bullet]      \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[dash]}        \NC \symbol[dash]        \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[star]}        \NC \symbol[star]        \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[triangle]}    \NC \symbol[triangle]    \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[circle]}      \NC \symbol[circle]      \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[square]}      \NC \symbol[square]      \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[diamond]}     \NC \symbol[diamond]     \NC\NR
\TB
\NC \type{\symbol[smallcircle]} \NC \symbol[smallcircle] \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[medcircle]}   \NC \symbol[medcircle]   \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[bigcircle]}   \NC \symbol[bigcircle]   \NC\NR
\stoptabulate

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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* Re: Asterisk
  2015-06-09  9:02 ` Asterisk Wolfgang Schuster
@ 2015-06-09 10:25   ` Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
  2015-06-09 10:50     ` Asterisk Wolfgang Schuster
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. @ 2015-06-09 10:25 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hello,

thank you, that's great.

One more question - how to use another symbol, "bigstar" (see "symbols-a4.pdf" or the attached image)?

I tried the following code, but with no success:

----
\starttext
Ttt \symbol[bigstar]

Aaa \bigstar

Bbb \symbol[mathabx][bigstar]

\stoptext
----

Best regards,

Lukas


On Tue, 09 Jun 2015 11:02:05 +0200, Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

>
>> Am 09.06.2015 um 09:21 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz>:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> how to typeset "centerd asterisk" ("*") in Ctx?
>>
>> I mean the symbol which is used in the third level of itemization (http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Enumerations) or which can be typeset by \textasteriskcentered in LaTeX.
>>
>> (I cannot find the symbol definition in Ctx itemize-command definition (source files) and simple writing "\textasteriskcentered" doesn't work.)
>
> The symbols in different itemise levels can be shown with \symbol[1], \symbol[2] etc. but since these numbered symbols can be redefined it is better to use the named symbol to access the star with \symbol[star].
>
> The following example shows a few of the predefined symbols.
>
> \starttext
>
> \starttabulate[|l|c|]
> \NC \bf Command                 \NC \bf Symbol           \NC\NR
> \TB
> \NC \type{\symbol[1]}           \NC \symbol[1]           \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[2]}           \NC \symbol[2]           \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[3]}           \NC \symbol[3]           \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[4]}           \NC \symbol[4]           \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[5]}           \NC \symbol[5]           \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[6]}           \NC \symbol[6]           \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[7]}           \NC \symbol[7]           \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[8]}           \NC \symbol[8]           \NC\NR
> \TB
> \NC \type{\symbol[bullet]}      \NC \symbol[bullet]      \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[dash]}        \NC \symbol[dash]        \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[star]}        \NC \symbol[star]        \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[triangle]}    \NC \symbol[triangle]    \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[circle]}      \NC \symbol[circle]      \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[square]}      \NC \symbol[square]      \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[diamond]}     \NC \symbol[diamond]     \NC\NR
> \TB
> \NC \type{\symbol[smallcircle]} \NC \symbol[smallcircle] \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[medcircle]}   \NC \symbol[medcircle]   \NC\NR
> \NC \type{\symbol[bigcircle]}   \NC \symbol[bigcircle]   \NC\NR
> \stoptabulate
>
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
> ___________________________________________________________________________________
> 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
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> archive  : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/
> wiki     : http://contextgarden.net
> ___________________________________________________________________________________


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Bezová 1658
147 14 Praha 4

Tel: +420 241 096 751
Fax: +420 244 461 038

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\starttext

\starttabulate[|l|c|]
\NC \bf Command                 \NC \bf Symbol           \NC\NR
\TB
\NC \type{\symbol[1]}           \NC \symbol[1]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[2]}           \NC \symbol[2]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[3]}           \NC \symbol[3]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[4]}           \NC \symbol[4]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[5]}           \NC \symbol[5]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[6]}           \NC \symbol[6]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[7]}           \NC \symbol[7]           \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[8]}           \NC \symbol[8]           \NC\NR
\TB
\NC \type{\symbol[bullet]}      \NC \symbol[bullet]      \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[dash]}        \NC \symbol[dash]        \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[star]}        \NC \symbol[star]        \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[triangle]}    \NC \symbol[triangle]    \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[circle]}      \NC \symbol[circle]      \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[square]}      \NC \symbol[square]      \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[diamond]}     \NC \symbol[diamond]     \NC\NR
\TB
\NC \type{\symbol[smallcircle]} \NC \symbol[smallcircle] \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[medcircle]}   \NC \symbol[medcircle]   \NC\NR
\NC \type{\symbol[bigcircle]}   \NC \symbol[bigcircle]   \NC\NR
\stoptabulate

Ttt \symbol[bigstar]

Aaa \bigstar

Bbb \symbol[mathabx][bigstar]

\stoptext

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* Re: Asterisk
  2015-06-09 10:25   ` Asterisk Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o.
@ 2015-06-09 10:50     ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2015-06-09 10:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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> Am 09.06.2015 um 12:25 schrieb Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <LPr@pontex.cz>:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> thank you, that's great.
> 
> One more question - how to use another symbol, "bigstar" (see "symbols-a4.pdf" or the attached image)?

The document you mention is only relevant for LaTeX.

> I tried the following code, but with no success:
> 
> ----
> \starttext
> Ttt \symbol[bigstar]
> 
> Aaa \bigstar
> 
> Bbb \symbol[mathabx][bigstar]
> 
> \stoptext

You have to use math mode to show the symbol but not every font contains it.

\setupbodyfont[xits]

\starttext
$ \bigstar \quad ★ $
\stoptext

The better solution is to use a symbol font like Font Awesome [1] which contains the symbol you want to use.

[1] http://fontawesome.io/icon/star

Wolfgang

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