Re: \Asterisk

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Wed, 28 May 2008, Wolfgang Schuster wrote:

> On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
>> 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
>>
>> $\Asterix$
>
> What is with Obelix?
>
>> 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.
>
> Why so complicated, * did also work with Latin Modern and the other fonts.
>
> I prefer \definesymbol [asterisk] [\char"2A\relax] and \symbol{asterisk},
> you're way is also possible but
> \startencoding[default]
> \definecharacter Asterisk \char"2A
> \stopencoding
> is also possible.

Asterix is like a big asterix (similar to \bigstar vs \star, and \bigtimes 
vs \times, maybe it shold be called \bigasterix)

> The unicode chart show a few more asterisk variatione in the dingbats section:
> http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2700.pdf

I will check that.

Aditya
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