From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/41232 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: \Asterisk Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 18:11:56 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211926409 25058 80.91.229.12 (27 May 2008 22:13:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 May 2008 22:13:29 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed May 28 00:14:09 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1K17P3-0006Vj-0m for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 May 2008 00:12:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A10611FC16; Wed, 28 May 2008 00:11:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04049-02-3; Wed, 28 May 2008 00:10:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC6C11FC09; Wed, 28 May 2008 00:10:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 227A21FC09 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 00:10:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04049-02-2 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 00:10:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.93.161]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B9571FC07 for ; Wed, 28 May 2008 00:10:10 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: FROM host-n146-113.homerun.telia.com (host-n146-113.homerun.telia.com [217.214.93.113]) BY tombraider.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 483C86BD.79D42.30026 ; 27 May 2008 18:10:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (DEB 882 2007-12-20) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:41232 Archived-At: On Fri, 23 May 2008, Jesse Alama wrote: > I was working on a document in which I wanted use a symbol that, > acording to the Comprehensive LaTeX Symbol List, goes by the name of > \Asterisk or \bigast (see p. 22). I saw, though, that this seems to be > missing in ConTeXt. Might it be tucked away in some module, or is it > just absent? If it's really not there, what would it take to add it? The latex symbol list says that these are from the mathabx font. AFAIK, this font is not currently supported by ConTeXt. Adding support should be doable, but I am not sure what is the best way to support it. I do not know if this family is a complete replacement for CM (and LM) fonts, or only some symbols are provided. I am travelling right now, and I can play around with these fonts sometime next week. The font claims to provide plain tex support, so it should be usable out of the box. You can try \input mathabx $\Asterix$ and see if this works with plain tex and ConTeXt. Only the metafont files are available, I do not know if someone has created a type1 version. > PS Is there such a thing for ConTeXt as the Comprehensive Symbol List > for LaTex? Not as organized as the Comprehensive Symbol List, but quite useful nonetheless \showmathcharacters mkiv has another mechanism (s-???) whose name I do not remember at the moment. Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________